Diritto, retorica e realtà

This essay examines some of the theses put forward by Federico Puppo in
his recent book Diritto e retorica. First, I will briefly summarise the structure of the
volume and some of the most innovative ideas advocated by the author. Subsequently, I will make some critical remarks on two central points of Puppo’s theory: the defence of innatist theses (§2) and the idea that value judgements bear truth values (§3), attempting to show how these points are connected.