Let's Talk about Antinomies. Normative Systems Reloaded

The aim of the present contribution is much more modest: I will set my focus to normative conflicts. I would like to invite attention to this topic because, despite their great theoretical importance, normative conflicts seem to occupy only peripheral positions in NS, and receive but a rushed overview. More specifically, as I will argue, NS does not counter the challenge raised by the existence of instantiation conflicts, which represents a serious danger for NS, insofar as it supports the claim that some “special” cases of antinomy cannot be reduced to conflicts between generic cases. NS, instead, assumes that every antinomy, by definition, is a conflict between general cases: accordingly, every antinomy stems from an inconsistent deontic modalization of two identical or overlapping general cases. In my essay I will propose new arguments in favor of NS, by showing how even paradigmatic examples of instantiation conflicts can be reframed as antinomies between general cases.