In this interview, Ernesto Castro Córdoba sets out the legal foundations of his philosophical system, Generic Naturalism, and its implications for the philosophy of law. Through his responses, he shows how rights emerge genealogically, rather than from divine law or pure reason. For the philosopher, being precedes ought, consciously embracing what is conventionally known as the “naturalistic fallacy”. The interview also engages with Ferraris and his ontology of social objects and documentality, as well as with Gustavo Bueno and Kant on procedural euthanasia and the ontology of punishment, a phenomenon that the philosopher understands as simultaneously biological and institutional. Finally, the relationship between literature and law is explored, with Kafka as the author who diagnoses with greatest precision the bureaucratic pathology of modern legal systems.
