A HERANÇA KANTIANA DE HANS KELSEN NA TEORIA PURA DO DIREITO

Abstract

The article investigates the great Kantian heritage on Hans Kelsen’s Pure Theory of Law, one of the most important works of the twentieth century’s legal theory. It researches the Critique of Pure Reasons’ epistemology and Kant’s ethical-moral doctrine told in the Critique of Practical Reason, in the Metaphysics of Morals and its Groundwork and the consequences of their adoption or refusal mainly in the legal hermeneutics, interpretation and application of law, of the Kelsenian doctrine.