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ABRIß EINES REALISTISCHEN RECHTSPHILOSOPHISCHEN SYSTEMS [1949]

Einleitung

I. Teil RECHTSWISSENSCHAFTSLEHRE
  I. Abschnitt ALLGEMEINE EPISTEMOLOGISCHE GRUNDLEGUNG
  II. Abschnitt BEGRIFF UND ERFAHRUNGSWEISE DER RECHTSWISSENSCHAFT
  III. Abschnitt DIE GRUNDELEMENTE DES RECHTS
  IV. Abschnitt DIE METHODE DER RECHTSWISSENSCHAFT

II. Teil DIE PHILOSOPHISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG DES RECHTS
  1. Kapitel DIE ONTOLOGISCHE BEZOGENHEIT DES RECHTS
    I. Abschnitt DER BEGRIFF UND DIE GELTUNG DES KAUSALGESETZES
    II. Abschnitt DAS PROBLEM DER WILLENSFREIHEIT
  2. Kapitel DIE LOGISCHE BEZOGENHEIT DES RECHTS
  3. Kapitel DIE NORMATIVE BEZOGENHEIT DES RECHTS
    I. Abschnitt DAS WESEN DER NORMATIVITÄT
    II. Abschnitt DAS PROBLEM DES NATURRECHTS
    III. Abschnitt DER NORMATIVE BAU DES RECHTS
  4. Kapitel DER BEGRIFF DES RECHTS

III. Teil DIE AXIOLOGISCHE UNTERSUCHUNG DES RECHTS

ANHANG
ÜBER DIE MÖGLICHKEIT UND DEN WISSENSCHAFTSCHARAKTER DER RECHTSWISSENSCHAFT [1937]

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Blurb

István Losonczy (1908-1980) as a doctor iuris sub auspiciis gubernatoris was appointed to become the professorial director of Institutum philosophiae iuris at the Royal Hungarian Elizabeth University at Pécs in the fall of 1940. After the communist take-over in 1948, for political reasons he had to move to the chair of criminal law which he held for nearly a quarter of a century. Both his early paper ("Über die Möglichkeit der Wissenschaftscharakter der Rechtswissenschaft", 1937) and first magisterial book (A funkcionális fogalomalkotás lehetősége a jogtudományban [On the availability of functional conceptualization in jurisprudence], 1941) already signaled his claim for realism upon a new-Kantian methodological basis. It is in his last year of teaching philosophy of law that he arrived at drafting his view on the subject in form of lectures (Jogfilozófiai előadások vázlata, 1948). Upon the invitation of Professor Verdross, then also editor-in-chief of the Kelsenian Vienna School's Österreichische Zeitschrift für öffentliches Recht, he summarized - albeit the falling of the iron curtain already banned him to mail - his clear argument under the title "Abriß eines realistischen rechtsphilosophischen Systems [Outlines of a realist system of legal philosophy]". Its edited version is posthumously reproduced here from the author s corrected manuscript in German. Enclosed herewith in annex (in a photocopied form) is also his aforementioned paper (1937) on the possibility and scientific character of jurisprudence.

His challenging Rechtswissenschaftslehre is followed by his philosophical (i.e., ontological, logical, normative) and axiological investigation into the nature of law. A hitherto unknown professional orientation reveals itself in the book: conceptual development and analysis of foundational issues once criticized by Marxism as "neo-Thomistic universalism" (Imre Szabó) in search for "a synthesis transcending both idealism and realism" (Mihály Szotáczky). Its present-day timeliness lies first of all in the topic's development differentiated according to various ontological levels (spheres) of being and in the author's claim of modern worldview as patterned by natural science. Losonczy's curriculum vitae and bibliography and index of names offer a framework of the book.

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