The Intuitive Law of Léon Petrazycki: Transition from Reason and Nature of Objects to Empirical Intuition as Validity of Law
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Research/Original Article (دارای رتبه معتبر)
Abstract:
The history of the evolution of legal thought indicates the contentious process of the interaction between metaphysics and reality. Meanwhile, notions such as law and justice, and in general, natural law, being the criterion for evaluating justice in the legal structure, have a more complicated situation. Petrazyski's idea on intuitive law should be considered as a new framework for the mentioned interaction; as modern natural law is based on the preeminence of metaphysical rule over reality, and classical natural law also seeks static metaphysics to provide the ground for its interaction with reality. Thus, they could not be admissible. Petrazycki endeavors to seek a dynamic metaphysics which he finds it in dynamic subjectivism. Individual intuition is another expression of this type of subjectivism which leads to the intuitive right and intuitive justice. However, one may ask whether this type of metaphysics be the foundation and even superior and evolutionary framework of law? In fact, Petraziski does not believe in such a foundation, and as a result, his metaphysical interaction with reality cannot be maintained in the framework of idealism.
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Persian
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Journal of Public Law Research, Volume:24 Issue: 76, 2022
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215 to 246
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