New avenues for law and science: human rights in the technological era
| Autor | Francesco Romeo |
| Cargo | University of Naples 'Federico II'Naples - Italy |
| Páginas | 117-121 |
FRONESIS
Revista de Filosofía Jurídica, Social y Política
Instituto de Filosofía del Derecho Dr. J.M. Delgado Ocando
Universidad del Zulia. ISSN 1315-6268 - Dep. legal pp 199402ZU33
Vol. 18, No. 1, 2011: 117 - 121
New avenues for law and science:
human rights in the technological era
Francesco Romeo
University of Naples “Federico II”
Naples, Italy
francesco.romeo@unina.it
A.S:We all ought to learn more about Law and Science, given the fact
of the strong role played by technology within our local and global arenas.
This should delve into a public awareness of the social, ethical and legal im-
plications. How Law and Science link together?
F.R: The relationship between law and science partly matches that
between technology and science. Yet, law encompasses and broadens scien-
tific knowledge; it too is science. Legal science describes the conditions of
possibility of human social interactions, constructed beyond its natural con-
ditions of possibility: law has to be found and likewise invented. Contem-
porary legal philosophy and sociology barely reflect, or indeed do not do
so at all, on the origins of human civilisation founded on the rule of law.
What are the origins of law in human societies? Why do no human socie-
ties exist without laws? Why has anarchy never been achieved historically?
It would seem that law is the condition of possibility for a culturally ad-
vanced human society; that, hence, at a certain point in his history, Man
needed the rule of law in order to develop his culture. Human culture
needs a legal structure to be able to evolve, and, in the light of this observa-
tion, the sociological motto ubi societas ibi jus becomes the reverse: nulla
hominum societas, nulla humanitas sine jure. This also tells us that the possibili-
ties and conditions for controlling technology and the economy do not be-
* Interview realized by Alessandro Serpe, University of Naples, Italy.
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