TOWARDS A GENERAL THEORY OF THE RACIONAL PRACTICAL DISCOURSE: ROBERT ALEXY AND TOMAS DE AQUINO

Abstract

Robert Alexy and Thomas Aquinas coincide in the fact that all speaking people gravitate at the same time through the minimal requirements of all the rules given by all groups that govern all the subjective relationships and the argumentative forms that pretend the correction and transparency of the speech. For Alexy, the balance about the reach of the practical speech in general, the following of the rules and forms of argument can add to the probabilities of reaching agreement in the practical field, but do not guarantee an agreement in every field possible, also, that any agreement reached would last forever. Thomas Aquinas would say that it couldn’t be other way around , because the human nature is mutable but it does not changes its essence.

Keywords

• Discurso práctico general, argumentación jurídica, reglas fundamentales, reglas de razón, formas del argumento, ethos de la polémica, forma silogística