What happens when the subject that sustains law disappears from the very process law is designed to govern?

Kelsen, Hart, and Dworkin built three deeply opposed systems of legal thought — and agreed on almost nothing. Yet all three share a premise none of them ever stated: that the legal actor has an ego. A subject that perceives, deliberates, decides, and bears responsibility for what it has decided. That premise was not one philosophical option among many. It was the entire architecture of modern law.

Chapter 1 of From Ego to Algorithm is not a critique of modern law. It is an archaeology. The task is to dig beneath the most celebrated disputes in contemporary legal philosophy and uncover what none of these three thinkers needed to defend — because none could imagine the need would arise.

The chapter moves through three schools and one shared assumption; the tacit presupposition no one named; a necessary clarification on legal facts and the role of will; the asymmetry law cannot see; law without an inhabitant as the first structural fracture; and the Grundnorm without a subject as the closing move of the ontological diagnosis.

"Legal norms impute consequences to acts because those acts are attributable to subjects: not to anonymous natural causes, but to agents upon whom consequences can operate."

— Hans Kelsen, Pure Theory of Law (1967, §§ 4-6)

🔹 EaA — From Ego to Algorithm

Jesús Bernal Allende | Escuela del Deber-Optimizar y la Soberanía de la Evidencia

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