Publication details
Viktor Knapp a nacistický moralismus
| Title in English | Viktor Knapp and NS-moralism |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2013 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Právník |
| MU Faculty or unit | |
| Citation | |
| Web | http://www.ilaw.cas.cz/pravnik2.php?rok=2013&cislo=12 |
| Field | Law sciences |
| Keywords | Viktor Knapp; nazi jurisprudence; national socialism; liberalism; rasism; moralism; social darwinism; legal positivism |
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| Description | Viktor Knapps book Problém nacistické právní filozofie (first edition 1947) is an important contribution to an understanding the nature of national socialist (= NS) jurisprudence. Knapp rightly claims that the fundamental principle NS-legal theory is the thesis of the necessary connection between law and morality. Law and morality set up an unity, therefore moral obligations can be enforced by means of law. This fact alone is a dangerous anti-liberal idea. Ultimately, this is how the nazi regime can impose its own conception of the good life on its citizens. Much worse, nazis abused a morality for justification of grossly immoral practices, included extermination of other nations. A morality can be immoral as well. Nazi morality is a "good" example. |