Que es el decisionismo? Reflexiones en torno a la doctrina politica de Carl Schmitt
In: Revista mexicana de ciencias políticas y sociales, Band 40, Heft 161, S. 49-74
ISSN: 0185-1918
From Carl Schmitt's earliest works during the years of the Weimar Republic in Germany, he utilized the concept of decisionism io refer to a political viewpoint contrasted with romanticism or normative thought. In decisionism, legal rights depended on a political decision by the party in power, not norms. This was not to imply that norms & values were absent from political life, but rather, that they were not used as referents in decisions about option visions of the world. Schmitt's decisionism has been treated as a positivist dogma & an ethical philosophy, along the lines of existentialism. It is argued that it should not be treated as a variant of ethical relativism or ethical voluntarism. Schmitt gave the power of all moral & legal decisions in political life to the sovereign authority. In this sense, decisionism can be better characterized as a system negating all the political values supported by liberalism. 30 References. Adapted from the source document.