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Kant’s theory of judgment and operation of adjudication: application or creation - reading of The Image of Law by Alexandre Lefebre

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2013, (15), pp.29~59
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities

Eusun Heo 1

1동국대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The main objective of this essay is to explore the ideas and arguments of The Image of Law that are relevant to Kant’s theory of judgment. According to Lefebre, the author of The Image of Law, Kant’s theory of judgment is recently revived in the modern juridical discernment by Hart, Dworkin etc. Although two theorists guarantee some creativity in law and adjudication, they take encounters to be instances of the universal in order to extend an original system. This subsumptive character is the very inheritance of Kant that essentially suppresses and excludes creativity out of juridical judgment. Lefebre insists that creativity and invention are intrinsic to adjudication dint of activating Deleuze’s key theme. The secondary objective of this article is to attempt to read Kant’s moral judgment focusing on application and creation. The emphasis is placed on the issue as to whether or not the moral judgment in Kant excludes creativity and merely repeats the law, while seeking the possibility of creativity in Kant’s theory of judgment.

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