Ego sum dominus deus tuus. Constitutive Power, Prescriptive Force

AutoreAntonio Incampo
Pagine101-107
Antonio incAMpo
“EGO SUM DOMINUS DEUS TUUS”
Constitutive Power, Prescriptive Force*1
summary: 1. A sinaïtic beginning. – 1.1. “Ego sum Dominus Deus Tuus”. – 1.2.
Non habebis deos alienos coram me”. – 1.3. Normative phenomena. 2. Another
question. – 2.1. Constitutivity vs. prescriptivity of rules. – 2.2. Constitutive po-
wer of rules. – 2.3. Prescriptive power of rules. – 3. Audi, Israel!
Ego sum Dominus Deus tuus […]. Non habebis deos alienos coram me.
“I am the Lord thy God [...]. Thou shalt not have strange gods before me.
(Exodus, 20: 2-3.)
This is the first “word” (lógos) of the Decalogue, proclaimed on Mount
Sinai.
1.1. The first word of the Decalogue is not immediately a rule that pre-
scribes something, a rule that lays down a type of behaviour as obligatory.
The first word of the Deca logue is, much rather, a rule announcing and con-
stituting a power. He who speaks declares himself to be “Lord”, thereby gi-
ving himself a power of sovereignty over Israel.
The following two topics are a condition, a necessary one, but not a suffi-
cient one of such a power:
(i) Qui eduxi te de terra Aegypti
“Who brought thee out of the land of Egypt”;
* This paper reproduces a lecture at the Italian-Polish Workshop “Consitutive Rule” held on
8-9th June 2006 at the University of Zielona Góra, Poland.

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