Learning Outcomes
The course aims to consolidate and sharpen students' ability to understand the continuity and coherence between philosophical conceptions of law with specific methodologies and techniques in understanding and applying the law in individual cases and to apply specific techniques and methods of practical reasoning in law, ethics, politics, especially through reduction to abstract practical principles.
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course is divided into two parts: a) on the one hand, it highlights the methodological consequences of developments in the philosophy of law from the 19th century to the present and to demonstrate the superiority of systematic telological interpretation and b) on the other hand, it presents exemplary issues of the application of these methods in various institutional fields, such as the application of social ethics in law, the protection of the environment, the freedom of art, etc.