Methods of Legal Reasoning (Law and Philosophy Library) by Jerzy Stelmach, Bartosz Brozek

By Jerzy Stelmach, Bartosz Brozek

The publication makes an attempt to explain and criticize 4 tools utilized in criminal perform, criminal dogmatics and felony thought: common sense, research, argumentation and hermeneutics. except a presentation of uncomplicated rules hooked up with the above pointed out tools, the essays contained during this e-book search to reply to questions in regards to the assumptions status in the back of those equipment, the bounds of utilizing them and their usefulness within the perform and idea of legislation. a particular function of the publication is that during one research 4 varied, occasionally competing ideas of felony process are mentioned. The landscape, sketched like this, permits one to mirror deeply at the questions about the methodological conditioning of felony technological know-how and the lifestyles of a distinct, particular criminal approach. The authors argue that there exists no such procedure. They declare that the methodologies offered within the e-book may possibly function a foundation for developing a coherent and priceless belief of felony pondering. this kind of notion, despite the fact that, needs to realize its personal assumptions and boundaries, caused by adopting a selected philosophical stance.

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Therefore, we can note: (4) Intuitively correct normative arguments do exist. 35 It should be added that, in the original formulation, the Jørgensen Dilemma concerned imperatives, not norms. It is not difficult to argue that the Jørgensen Dilemma poses a fundamental challenge for any formal reconstruction of legal, or, more generally, normative, discourse. As we have already observed, the acceptance of thesis (3) of the Dilemma leads directly to questioning the very possibility of a logic of norms.

16 This is an example of applying the practical syllogism that formalizes normative reasoning. Another, much later work that includes some considerations of deontic logic is Leibniz’s “Elementa iuris naturalis”. LOGIC 31 In twentieth century philosophy analyses of normative sentences can be found in the work of B. Bolzano, A. Höfler and E. Husserl. More advanced conceptions of practical discourse were developed by E. Lapie and E. Mally (logic of will), and by E. Menger (logic of habits). They were created in 1902, 1926 and 1934 respectively.

As an illustration consider the sentence “It is obligatory that John does not steal”. This sentence is true in wa, if the sentence “John does not steal” is true in every world of DD. , in w1, “It is obligatory that John does not steal” would not be true; therefore, John would not be obliged to refrain from stealing. The world w2 is a world that is accessible from the actual world, but the legislator does not regard it as deontically perfect. Finally, w3 is not accessible from wa, which amounts to saying that it cannot become an actual world.

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