Part Ⅰ Introduction 3
1 The Roman Heritage 3
2 Bonus Theoreticus, Malus Practicus? 9
Two Classics 9
Toward Modern DSL 11
The Dual Nature of DSL 16
3 What Is the Doctrinal Study of Law? 19
The Definition 19
DSL and Adjudication 19
DSL and Sociology 22
Part Ⅱ The Foundations of Legal Thinking 27
4 Lawyer's Dilemma 27
5 On Language-Games 31
Learning Language 31
Language-Games 32
On Family Resemblance 34
Social Dimension of Language 35
Direct Experiences and Feelings 36
Form of Life 37
6 The Foundations of Knowledge 39
On Certainty 39
The Final Foundations of Knowledge 40
The Role of the Form of Life 42
7 On the Ontology of Law 45
The Standard View 45
On the Conventionalist Theory 47
Institutional Legal Theory 48
On Shared Mutual Beliefs 50
8 A Moral Point of View 53
Starting Point 53
Moral Foundation of Law 54
Moral Foundations of Legal Reasoning 57
On Moderate Value Relativism 57
Prima Faeie vs. all Things Considered 59
Summary 62
9 The Three Notions of Liberty 65
The Traditional View 65
The Third Notion of Liberty 66
Summary 69
Part Ⅲ Between Realism and Idealism 73
10 What Is Science? 73
A Positivistic View 73
On the Criteria of Scienee 73
Further Analysis 75
Summary 76
11 Legal Realism Reinterpreted 81
Alf Ross and the Scandinavian Realism 81
Ross as a Logical Empiricist 83
Realist Ross 84
What Is Law? 85
On the Ideological Element of the Rossian Theory 88
A Critical View 90
Ross and Hermeneutics 94
12 Outlines of the New Rhetoric 95
On the Background 95
The Greek Rhetoric 97
The Return of Rhetoric 99
The Idea of New Rhetoric 100
Rhetoric and the Argumentation Theory 103
13 Scientific Inference - An Example 105
Out of the Cave 105
Origin 107
Content 107
The Interpretation of Archaeological Findings 107
The Structure of Reasoning 109
What About the Legal Reasoning? 112
Part Ⅳ On the Doctrinal Study of Law 117
14 From the Constitutional State to the Welfare State 117
15 Two Types of Norms 119
Starting Point 119
On the Strong Demarcation Thesis 119
Weak Demarcation Thesis 120
A Step Further 122
16 The Formal Validity, Efficacy, and Acceptability of Legal Norms 125
On the Lexical Meaning of Validity 125
Formal Validity 125
Efficacy 128
Axiologieal Validity 129
17 The Procedure of Legal Reasoning 131
On the Notion of Interpretation 131
Meaning Propositions 131
On Justification 133
Internal Justification 134
External Justification 134
The Structure of External Justification 137
On the Notion of Rationality 139
The Preconditions of Rational Legal Discourse 142
On Coherence 144
18 The Sources of Law 147
The Doctrine of the Sources of Law 147
The Normative Status of the Sources of Law 150
Strongly Binding Sources 151
The Statutes 151
Non-national Sources of Law 152
Weakly Binding Sources of Law 153
The Intention of the Legislator 154
Precedents 158
Permitted Sources 160
Consequential Inference 161
On principles as the Source of Law 162
19 One Right Answer? 165
Final and Right Answer 165
Hercules J 166
Acceptance and Acceptability 170
Majority Principle 172
20 On the Systematisation 177
The Need for Systematisation 177
The Theories in Law 178
Reformulation of the System 179
21 Change or Development? 185
The Standard View 185
Outl ines ot the Kuhnian Model 185
Kuhn and the Social Sciences 191
Matrix of DSL 192
Theoretical and Practical DSL 195
Change - How and When? 196
Bibliography 201
Name Index 215
Subject Index 219