The Concept of Positive Law and Its Relationship to Religion and Morality
| hal.structure.identifier | Les Afriques dans le monde [LAM] | |
| dc.contributor.author | DUPRET, Baudouin | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-10-08 | |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780198840534 | |
| dc.description.abstractEn | Can the concept of law be extended to other times and places in which the concept as understood in most countries and societies today—as a system of norms centred on a nation state, based on a constitution, formulated through codified legislation and judicial precedents, administered by lawmakers for its inception and judges for its implementation—simply did not exist? My contention is that such an extension is, at best, useless and, at worst, misleading. Producing an intelligible jurisprudence of the concept of law means keeping it within the reasonable boundaries of what is ordinarily understood by both lay and professional people when practising ‘the’ law. Developing a socio-historical jurisprudence of law, as distinct from other normativities, entails a threefold analysis: conceptual, historical, and praxiological. Following the ground broken by analytical philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, conceptual analysis engages in the exposition of the grammar through which concepts acquire their signification and are meaningfully used. In a manner inspired by philosopher of science Ian Hacking and by historian Reinhart Koselleck, historical analysis emphasizes the description of the birth, development, and use of concepts. Drawing on the work of sociologist Harold Garfinkel, praxiological analysis describes the practical methods used by people to make sense of their environment, to produce their local order, and to act accordingly. The three approaches converge in their insistence on adopting the endogenous/indigenous perspective towards social life and its production. | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | |
| dc.source.title | The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology | |
| dc.title.en | The Concept of Positive Law and Its Relationship to Religion and Morality | |
| dc.type | Chapitre d'ouvrage | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198840534.013.22 | |
| dc.subject.hal | Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie | |
| bordeaux.page | 368-380 | |
| bordeaux.issue | 1 | |
| bordeaux.title.proceeding | The Oxford Handbook of Law and Anthropology | |
| hal.identifier | halshs-03920510 | |
| hal.version | 1 | |
| hal.popular | non | |
| hal.audience | Internationale | |
| hal.origin.link | https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr//halshs-03920510v1 | |
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