Axiology of Law – from General to Specific Philosophy of Law

An axiology as a theory of values takes an important place not only in general philosophy but in legal philosophy as well. Jurisprudence and law cannot ultimately be axiologically neutralised since the relationship between law and values is of a primary, eternal, necessary and immanent character. Th...

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Main Author: Jerzy Zajadło
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Language:English
Published: Maria Curie-Skłodowska University 2023-12-01
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Online Access:https://journals.umcs.pl/sil/article/view/16103
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description An axiology as a theory of values takes an important place not only in general philosophy but in legal philosophy as well. Jurisprudence and law cannot ultimately be axiologically neutralised since the relationship between law and values is of a primary, eternal, necessary and immanent character. The author discusses this phenomenon on the example of Gustav Radbruch’s legal philosophy. In his opinion when one writes about Radbruch as a philosopher of law, one should make five very important reservations: firstly, Radbruch was a representative of Neo-Kantianism; secondly, it was not Neo-Kantianism ‘in general’, but a specific variant called Baden Neo-Kantianism (south-German, Heidelberg-based); thirdly, Radbruch was not a philosopher ‘in general’, as he was interested in Neo-Kantianism transplanted to the philosophy of law; fourthly, we may currently notice a great comeback of the philosophy of Kant (e.g. J. Habermas, J. Rawls, O. Höffe), but this phenomenon should be precisely distinguished from Neo-Kantianism as the temporally and spatially determined philosophical direction of the fin de siècle period; fifthly, if one can even speak of some kind of axiological turning point in the evolution of Radbruch’s philosophical views, it is 1933 rather than 1945.
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spelling doaj.art-75b395cd790c49089c12dba290ab88342024-01-25T12:44:55ZengMaria Curie-Skłodowska UniversityStudia Iuridica Lublinensia1731-63752023-12-0132419121710.17951/sil.2023.32.4.191-21710501Axiology of Law – from General to Specific Philosophy of LawJerzy Zajadło0University of GdańskAn axiology as a theory of values takes an important place not only in general philosophy but in legal philosophy as well. Jurisprudence and law cannot ultimately be axiologically neutralised since the relationship between law and values is of a primary, eternal, necessary and immanent character. The author discusses this phenomenon on the example of Gustav Radbruch’s legal philosophy. In his opinion when one writes about Radbruch as a philosopher of law, one should make five very important reservations: firstly, Radbruch was a representative of Neo-Kantianism; secondly, it was not Neo-Kantianism ‘in general’, but a specific variant called Baden Neo-Kantianism (south-German, Heidelberg-based); thirdly, Radbruch was not a philosopher ‘in general’, as he was interested in Neo-Kantianism transplanted to the philosophy of law; fourthly, we may currently notice a great comeback of the philosophy of Kant (e.g. J. Habermas, J. Rawls, O. Höffe), but this phenomenon should be precisely distinguished from Neo-Kantianism as the temporally and spatially determined philosophical direction of the fin de siècle period; fifthly, if one can even speak of some kind of axiological turning point in the evolution of Radbruch’s philosophical views, it is 1933 rather than 1945.https://journals.umcs.pl/sil/article/view/16103axiologyphilosophy of lawlegal valuesgustav radbruchneo-kantianism
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Axiology of Law – from General to Specific Philosophy of Law
Studia Iuridica Lublinensia
axiology
philosophy of law
legal values
gustav radbruch
neo-kantianism
title Axiology of Law – from General to Specific Philosophy of Law
title_full Axiology of Law – from General to Specific Philosophy of Law
title_fullStr Axiology of Law – from General to Specific Philosophy of Law
title_full_unstemmed Axiology of Law – from General to Specific Philosophy of Law
title_short Axiology of Law – from General to Specific Philosophy of Law
title_sort axiology of law from general to specific philosophy of law
topic axiology
philosophy of law
legal values
gustav radbruch
neo-kantianism
url https://journals.umcs.pl/sil/article/view/16103
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