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(1986) Practical reasoning in human affairs, Dordrecht, Springer.
In 1976, Chaim Perelman published, in French, his Logigue juridique 1 ("Juridical logic"). This book was an application of the general theory of argumentation the author had developed some twenty years before, in Traité l" Argumentation (1958 — English translation: 1968).2 But we shall see that law is not just an application of the Treatise: on the contrary, Perelman affirms that, for him, law has to replace mathematics in the privileged status they have had throughout the history of philosophy, say from Plato to Husserl. I shall try to show whether or not Perelman's jurisprudence attains the target: is law to become the major discipline if we want to understand practical reasoning and to introduce rationality in the realm of ethical choices?
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-4674-3_13
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Haarscher, G. (1986)., Perelman and the philosophy of law, in J. L. Golden & J. J. Pilotta (eds.), Practical reasoning in human affairs, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 245-255.
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