Research article
On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory
O możliwych zastosowaniach myśli Paula Ricoeura w teorii prawa
Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, nr 1(10)/2015, s. 79-88
Polish
Translated abstract
The paradigm of legal positivism, historically the most important attempt at turning law into science, has been subject to thorough criticism in past decades. The criticism has concerned the most important features of legal positivism, and especially the assumption of separation of law and morality, the dogma of statue being the only source of law, and the linguistic methods of interpreting legal texts. With a crisis of the positive paradigms, the demand for new, humanistic grounds for analysing philosophical and legal questions is intensifying. This is the reason for this article’s attempt to point to the application of Paul Ricoeur’s achievements to the key questions of the philosophy of law. It must be emphasised that his works, and especially Soimême comme un autre , may serve as a foundation for a philosophy of law rejecting the problematic claims about the dualism of being and obligation, the distinction of descriptive and prescriptive languages, and also the separation of law and morality. Thanks to this, the legal topos pacta sunt servanda (agreements must be kept) finds a reinforcement in the ontology of the subject applying law and can be understood as an ethically significant pattern of identity of the self. Equally fruitful seems the possibility of combining the questions of the ontology of the subject applying law with the question of a legal text and its interpretation. The assumption of Ricoeur’s perspective leads to a reduction in the distance between the legal text and its addressee, emphasised by the critics of legal positivism. This rapprochement becomes possible thanks to the connection of the question of the narrative that a legal text is with the question of narrativisation of the subject (i.e. the interpreter of a legal text), being itself in the ipse sense, i.e. applying the law.
Translated keywords
- Paul Ricoeur
- pozytywizm prawniczy
- wykładnia prawa
English
Abstract
The paradigm of legal positivism, historically the most important attempt at turning law into science, has been subject to thorough criticism in past decades. The criticism has concerned the most important features of legal positivism, and especially the assumption of separation of law and morality, the dogma of statue being the only source of law, and the linguistic methods of interpreting legal texts. With a crisis of the positive paradigms, the demand for new, humanistic grounds for analysing philosophical and legal questions is intensifying. This is the reason for this article’s attempt to point to the application of Paul Ricoeur’s achievements to the key questions of the philosophy of law. It must be emphasised that his works, and especially Soimême comme un autre, may serve as a foundation for a philosophy of law rejecting the problematic claims about the dualism of being and obligation, the distinction of descriptive and prescriptive languages, and also the separation of law and morality. Thanks to this, the legal topos pacta sunt servanda (agreements must be kept) finds a reinforcement in the ontology of the subject applying law and can be understood as an ethically significant pattern of identity of the self. Equally fruitful seems the possibility of combining the questions of the ontology of the subject applying law with the question of a legal text and its interpretation. The assumption of Ricoeur’s perspective leads to a reduction in the distance between the legal text and its addressee, emphasised by the critics of legal positivism. This rapprochement becomes possible thanks to the connection of the question of the narrative that a legal text is with the question of narrativisation of the subject (i.e. the interpreter of a legal text), being itself in the ipse sense, i.e. applying the law.
Keywords
- Paul Ricoeur
- legal positivism
- legal interpretation
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M. Pieniążek, On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory, „Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej” nr 1(10)/2015, s. 79–88, DOI: 10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79
ACM
[1] Marcin Pieniążek. 2015. On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory. AFPiFS 1(10) (2015), 79–88. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79
ACS
(1) Pieniążek, M. On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory. AFPiFS 2015, No. 1(10), 79–88. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79.
APA
Pieniążek, M. (2015). On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 1(10), 79–88. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79
ABNT
PIENIĄŻEK, Marcin. On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, n. 1(10), p. 79–88, 2015.
Chicago
Pieniążek, Marcin. “On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory.” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, no. 1(10) (2015): 79–88. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79.
Harvard
Pieniążek, M. (2015) “On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory,” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 1(10), pp. 79–88. Available at: https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79.
IEEE
[1] M. Pieniążek, “On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory,” AFPiFS, no. 1(10), pp. 79–88, 2015, doi: 10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79.
MLA
Pieniążek, Marcin. “On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory.” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, no. 1(10), 2015, pp. 79–88, https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79.
Turabian
Pieniążek, Marcin. “On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory.” Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, no. 1(10) (2015): 79–88. https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79.
Vancouver
1. Pieniążek M. On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory. AFPiFS. 2015;1(10):79–88. doi:10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79
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Marcin Pieniążek, ‘On Possible Applications of Paul Ricoeur’s Thought in Legal Theory’ (2015) 1(10) AFPiFS 79 <https://doi.org/10.36280/afpifs.2015.1.79>.