Methodological Dualism and Monism: Essay on the Legal Mind and Ontology in Light of Barna Horvath’s Dialectical Neo-Kantianism Cover Image

Módszerdualizmus-monizmus: vázlat a jogászi gondolkodásmód és a lételmélet viszonyáról Horváth Barna dialektikus neokantianizmusa kapcsán
Methodological Dualism and Monism: Essay on the Legal Mind and Ontology in Light of Barna Horvath’s Dialectical Neo-Kantianism

Author(s): Péter Szigeti
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, History of Law, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: legal theory; neo-Kantian methodological dualism; social ontology; monism; legal validity; reproductive structures of social reality; formation costmary law; legal finding; application of law

Summary/Abstract: We regard the neo-Kantian methodological dualism and monism of social ontology two concurring theories. Both offer coherent accounts capable of explaining and interpreting legal phenomena. Barna Horvath’s own methodological dualism offers principally a valid account of the application of law or jurisprudence. Social ontology relies rather on an understanding of the self-reproducing structures of social reality. Based on that foundation social ontology offers a more plausible account of the legislative process through its own categories such as the development of customary law or ‘legal finding’ (Rechtsfindung).

  • Issue Year: 5/2016
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 257-270
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Hungarian