Possibilities of Applying the Phenomenological Method to Legal Concepts and Theories
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https://doi.org/10.51204/IVRS_25108AKeywords:
Phenomenology of Law, Phenomenological Method, Husserl, Basic Norm , Ductive ForceAbstract
Phenomenology is a 20th-century philosophical movement rooted in the thought of the German philosopher Edmund Husserl which emphasizes the way phenomena appear in their primordial givenness by bracketing their content to focus on their essences. The author of this paper interprets the philosophical method of this approach as the extraction of the universal characteristics of phenomena that permeate every individual instance of their appearance – those elements whose absence would render us unaware of the phenomena themselves, thereby constituting their essences. The first part of the paper establishes the framework of phenomenology and its fundamental premise – the intentionality of consciousness, the second part is dedicated to the structure of the phenomenological method itself, while the third applies this method to approach the universal foundations of the phenomenon of "law," firstly through determining the phenomenological elements of Hans Kelsen’s "basic norm“, followed by a phenomenological description of the nature of legal directives, the guiding role of legal norms, and the influence of legal norms on both internal and external evaluation through the formation of evental patterns
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