scholarly journals The dialectics of cyclicity in the development of law.

Author(s):  
Yuriy Vedyernikov ◽  
Vasyl Tkachenko ◽  
Volodymyr Shestakov

The dialectic of cyclicity in the system of dual natural and positive law, as the transition from one opposite to another, involution to evolution, quantitative transformations into qualitative and actually regular cyclicity of crises and stability in the legal system is studied. The dialectic of cyclicity in law occurs as constant oscillating processes of transition from one opposite to another, natural law into positive, involution into evolution, quantity into quality, crisis into stability, and development in a circle gradually turns into a spiral. Defining and substantiating the phases and stages of the cycle allows us to demonstrate the development of a particular cycle and the driving mechanisms of this transformation – the laws of dialectics, in particular, the unity and struggle of opposites in law, the transition from quantity to quality, denial of the old and so on. Oscillatory processes are manifested in opposites of phases and stages of cycles, and small cycles of development of law are embedded in large ones, where each cycle is part of a larger cycle, and that in turn is even larger, and so on. The end of one cycle leads to the transformation of the legal system and its manifestation in a new form and content at a new level of the spiral of development. Ways to overcome the crisis in the legal system should be sought, first of all, in the updated methodological principles of cyclicality in jurisprudence based on the ideas of natural law, based on the principles and laws of dialectics, laws of philosophy of law, and in combination with other branches of modern knowledge.

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-355
Author(s):  
Amirullah Amirullah

Abstract: Corruption is included as a crime which expands into a transnational crime, destroying the moral values of the nation, hampering and harming the development of the nation, a creation of a closed path of justice, prosperity and welfare of the Indonesian people. Death penalty is an option of criminal sanctions applied in the legal system in Indonesia. The death penalty attached and integrated in the legal system in Indonesia which was formerly influenced by the complexity of its background. At the philosophical level it shows that all legislations related to the formulation of corruption and death penalty have the background of moral values based on Pancasila as a philosophical footing. The death penalty of corruption in Indonesia within the perspective of a legal justice, contained in the formulation of Law No. 20 year 2001 about the Amendment of Law No. 31 year 1999 about eradication to corruption, chapter II, article 2, paragraph (2), shows a part of the positive law. The image of the positive law in Indonesia recognizes the existence of natural law. It is reflected in the philosophical values of the nation, Pancasila (believe in one God). Consequently, the products of the positive law in Indonesia must be derived from the natural law, and the natural law is derived from the eternal law (divine law).Keywords: Law, corruption, criminal act, justice


Human Affairs ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Delia Manzanero ◽  
José Vázquez Romero

AbstractThere are multiple and diverse voices of jurists who have expressed their fear of the unrestricted power of law enforcement and have announced the crisis of the formalist sense of Law. The widespread reaction against the abstract and formalist character of the positivist theory of law manifested itself as the Krausist philosophy of law and was backed by the philosophy of Krause, Schelling, Hegel and the most recent Natural Law theories that seek to establish substantial criteria for moral action. This distrust was caused by the heteronomy of modest and obedient civil servants of the judicial order that rely on political balance of power in which nothing depends on the human bottom of institutions. Let us consider briefly the impressive analyses performed by different thinkers on this issue, which they considered characteristic of their era, but that continues to constitute a difficulty that challenges contemporary society.


2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 246-262
Author(s):  
Norberto Bobbio

Resumo: O texto consiste numa ampla resenha crítica escrita pelo filósofo italiano Norberto Bobbio sobre o livro La comunità internazionale e il diritto [A comunidade internacional e o direito] (1950) de Mario Giuliano, na qual são discutidas essencialmente questões clássicas da filosofia do direito internacional, como a contraposição entre jusnaturalismo e juspositivismo, a natureza do direito internacional, a contraposição entre internacionalismo e cosmopolitismo, a reforma do direito internacional, a reforma da comunidade internacional, os temas da paz e da guerra, a cientificidade do direito internacional, a contraposição entre direito internacional e direito estatual e o tema do pacifismo. Palavras-chave: Mario Giuliano, direito internacional, comunidade internacional, internacionalismo, pacifismo. Abstract: This paper is a comprehensive critical review written by the Italian philosopher Norberto Bobbio on the book La comunità internazionale e il diritto [The international community and the right] (1950) by Mario Giuliano, which are discussed essentially classical questions of philosophy of law international, as the opposition between natural law and positive law, the nature of international law, the opposition between internationalism and cosmopolitanism, the reform of international law, the reform of the international community, the issues of peace and war, the scientificity of international law, opposition between international law and estatual rights and the issue of pacifism.Keywords: Mario Giuliano, international law, international community, internationalism, pacifism 


Author(s):  
Stuart Banner

This chapter explores how natural law worked in the legal system of the 18th and 19th centuries. It discusses how lawyers believed natural law could be discerned, how natural law related to positive law, why natural law seemed so plausible, how natural law figured in legal education, and how natural law was used in practice. Natural law was understood to consist of general principles found in nature, like the principles we call “scientific” laws today. They formed a backdrop against which positive law was enacted and interpreted. These general principles guided courts’ decisions where positive law did not yield a clear answer.


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (40) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Hervada

RESUMOEste artigo apresenta a reivindicação, por parte dos direitos humanos, da sua condição anterior ao direito positivo e as oposições por eles sofridas no âmbito da filosofia do direito. Considerando-se as diversas ocasiões e teorias em que se contemplou uma dimensão jurídica natural anterior à dimensão estritamente positiva do direito, busca-se arrazoar a necessidade de concebê-lo de forma a abranger também a realidade dos direitos humanos. Observam-se, ainda, as condições de existência dos direitos humanos e da personalidade jurídica diante das noções natural e cultural do direito, a fim de que não somente se resolvam as frequentes inconsistências teóricas, mas também que se reconheçam os direitos humanos como realidade ligada à própria dignidade humana.PALAVRAS-CHAVEDireitos humanos. Filosofia do direito. Direito natural. Direito cultural. Personalidade jurídica. ABSTRACTThis article presents the claim by human rights on its preceding condition in relation to positive law and the opposition it experiences in the field of philosophy of law. Considering several occasions and theories in which natural law, as a universe preceding strict positive law, has been contemplated, the article attempts to reason on the necessity of conceiving law in a way of encompassing the reality of human rights as well. The conditions of existence of human rights and legal personality in accordance to the naturalistic and cultural notions of law are also observed in order not only to solve theoretical inconsistencies but also to recognize human rights as a reality connected to human dignity itself.KEYWORDSHuman rights. Philosophy of law. Natural law. Cultural law. Legal personality.


2007 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Palazzani

L’autore analizza nella prospettiva della filosofia del diritto la questione del rapporto tra diritto e morale nella Evangelium Vitae. In particolare si sofferma ad analizzare le teorie che tematizzano la neutralità del diritto (nella pretesa di separare il diritto dalla morale pluralistica), quali la teoria liberalelibertaria che identifica il diritto con la garanzia dell’autonomia individuale e la teoria democratico-procedurale che fa coincidere il diritto con il voto di maggioranza. Giovanni Paolo II critica i percorsi postmoderni del diritto, riprendendo sul piano filosofico e teologico la dottrina del diritto naturale (in contrapposizione al giuspositivismo), che riconosce nell’uomo i diritti inviolabili e la dignità intrinseca. Nell’orizzonte giusnaturalista, esiste un dovere morale da parte del cittadino a criticare e a non obbedire alle leggi ingiuste e da parte del giurista e del politico ad operare per abrogare, riformarle e riformularle, al fine di adeguare il diritto positivo alle esigenze intrinseche della natura umana. ---------- The author analysis the question of the relation between law and ethics in Evangelium Vitae in the perspective of the philosophy of law. In particular, it focuses on the theories that speak about neutrality of law (separating law from moral pluralism), such as libertarian-liberalism which identifies law with individual autonomy and procedural democracy which identifies law with opinions of majority. John Paul II criticizes postmodern patterns of law, reaffirming on philosophical and theological level the doctrine of natural law (against legal positivism) which recognises in human being the inviolable rights and intrinsic dignity. In this perspective, there is a moral duty on the part of citizen to criticize and not to obey to unjust laws and on the part of jurist and politician to work for an abolition, reform and reformulation of law, to adequate positive law to the intrinsic instances of human nature.


2016 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 523-534
Author(s):  
Jean Rhéaume

At least two important consequences follow from the fact that human rights are based on human nature. First, they exist according to natural law even in cases where positive law does not recognize them. Secondly, they cannot evolve because the nature and purpose of the human being does not change: only their formulation and level of protection in positive law can vary according to the socio-historical context.


Author(s):  
Vera A. Iliukhina

Based on the understanding of the doctrinal principles of law as socially significant ideas formulated by scientists, practitioners, politicians in scientific works and other texts, as well as in public speeches and have not found a normative consolidation, the peculiarities of the doctrinal principles of law are highlighted. It is proposed to delimit the doctrinal principles of law from legal axioms and normatively enshrined principles of law (principles of positive law). The similarity between the doctrinal principles of law and legal axioms is that they are ideas. It is substantiated that their differences lie in the fact that legal axioms are always ideas that are socially important and tested by historical experience, and doctrinal principles can be absolutely any, including new ones, coinciding or not coinciding with the needs of society; doctrinal principles are always not normatively fixed (this is their main specific feature), and legal axioms may or may not have normative consolidation. The main differences between doctrinal and normatively enshrined principles of law are highlighted. Three ways are established for the implementation of doctrinal ideas to the level of sectoral, inter-sectoral or general legal principles. The position is substantiated that doctrinal principles have enormous social significance and play an important role in the legal system of Russia, since are the basis for innovative changes in law, are a driving force for the development of legislation, based on the level of development of scientific knowledge and the needs of society in a specific historical period.


Author(s):  
Nan Gong ◽  
I. I. Fedorov

The formation of the Russian procedural legal system is closely connected with its unique historical evolution. Russian Russian culture According to the Norman theory of the origin of the Russian nation, the Scandinavian culture is the most important source of early Russian culture. During the chaotic period of the tribe at the stage of primitive society, the Norman Varian was invited to Russia to reconcile the tribes of Russia and manage them, and this brought the Germanic custom to regulate the socio-economic and legal relations of various tribes. Since the formation of the ancient state of Russia, the ruling class has constantly strengthened the drafting of new laws and regulations, but customary law still dominates the legal system of the state. At the same time, ordinary norms in the system of customary law as a quasi-legal norm between morality and law have become an integral organic component of social customs and norms at all stages of Russian social development.During the period of Ancient Russia, the common custom of the Slavic people and the Norman Customary Law had a profound impact on the social life of ancient Russia. From the beginning of the 9th to the 17th century, customary law existed as the main legal source for regulating social relations in the late period of the development of Russian primitive society and in the earlier time of feudal society. His coercive force was based on the conviction that was widespread in the social community during this period, that is, "existing customs denote a reasonable basis". With the formation of the East Slavic state, the rulers began to work on drafting new legal norms, but inheritance is still mainly based on customs based on the clan system. As a result, as a rule of conduct recognized and guaranteed by the state, traditional customs gradually acquired a legal nature, and after that, positive law was formed. "Russkaya Pravda" is the most representative legal collection in the early years of the Russian feudal society, "The Truth of Ross", which was compiled according to the customs of the Eastern Slavs, and is the very fi rst positive law of ancient Russia.Before the appearance of formal law, customary law always played a role and coercive force as legislation, but the self-defense and insane methods of revenge obtained from it also caused social unrest. In order to stop personal self-defense and self-arbitrariness, as well as to strengthen ties between different regions, it is necessary to use the power of common law to unite the Principality into a whole. Although the new law does not exclude the original good customary norms, if there are no necessary penalties for violations, it will be destructive for the law. Therefore, it is necessary to give customary law a legal meaning and a compelling force, without changing the existing content of customary law.I must say that the German customs and the traditional customs of the Slavic people are intertwined in the historical codifi cation of Russian procedural law, forming a unique historical path of development of the procedural legal system of ancient Russia. Although national customs were recognized by the state in the form of positive law with the help of " Russian Truth”, and became the norm of justice and social norm on the basis of the guarantee of national coercive force, but this did not change the essence of customary law, but the form of positive law was given to it. As the modernization of the Russian judicial system moves into modern times, generations of legislators and lawyers are focusing on the study of national legal traditions and history, trying to discover the natural laws governing the development of the Russian legal system, and are constantly trying to make progress in the modern and modern process of judicial reform. The harmony of legislation, the borrowing of laws and national customs to a certain extent ensured a reasonable adjustment of national laws and norms of customary law.


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