But Norms are Not Enough. the Interaction Between Language and Motives of Behaviour

Abstract

Language-oriented philosophy, in its glorious stretch from logical empiricism to ordinary-language philosophy, has experienced an important season even in connection with the philosophy of law—and that even in Italy, where it yielded, from 1950 onward, significant results which I account myself to be directly indebted to. The two scholars at the forefront of this orientation in legal philosophy in Italy were Norberto Bobbio and Uberto Scarpelli (1924–1993), and I will be writing about them in Volume 11 of this Treatise, on the subject of legal philosophy in the 20th century.¹

One recent book, published in English and edited by Mario Jori and Anna Pintore, collects essays by exponents of the analytical approach to legal philosophy in Italy (Pintore and Jori 1997). The contributions in the book are by the following scholars: Anna Pintore, Norberto Bobbio, Uberto Scarpelli, Giovanni Tarello (1934–1987), Enrico Pattaro, Gaetano Carcaterra, Amedeo G. Conte, Alfonso Catania, Giacomo Gavazzi, Giorgio Lazzaro, Letizia Gianformaggio (1944–2004), Riccardo Guastini, Luigi Ferrajoli, Mario Jori, Andrea Belvedere.