This paper aims to present the relationship between ethics and law from a structural phenomenological perspective. In our opinion, the two domains are correlative, normative ethics is prior to formal establishment of the rule. Towards legal, ethics has a background and control function. Both...

The social contract is an act of establishing meaning. Power relations can be understood as semiotic relations of establishing an interpretative will. Natural state, original state in most theories of social contract, is not only a pre-politic one, but also pre-semiotic. Contractualist theories...