QUE TIPO DE SABER É O DIREITO? ENTRE A CIÊNCIA, A PRUDÊNCIA E A TÉCNICA

• Autor(a) principal: Moraes, Renato José de
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista da Faculdade de Direito UFPR (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.ufpr.br/direito/article/view/47451
• topic: Direito; Teoria do Direito; Aristóteles. Epistemologia. Técnica jurídica. Ciência.; Aristotle. Epistemology. Judicial technique. Science.

Aristotle’s Philosophy divides the kinds of knowledge in five intellectual virtues: sciences, wisdom, intelligence, technique and prudence. This article intends to explain these classes of virtues and in which of them the law can be rightly classified. This classification is important because each intellectual virtue has its particular characteristics, which determine the way they can be acquired and developed, as well as their finalities. In fact, the way we deal with the law depends directly on how we define its epistemological class. Science and wisdom are theoretical intellectual virtues that search the universal and the necessary, while technique and prudence are practical, directed to the individual and the contingent. Prudence is related to conscious human actions, which are influenced by the appetites of the agent, while technique is related to a product to be done outside the agent. All things considered, law is primarily a technique or an art, because its immediate object is the human reality, with its precariousness and contingency. That is how the Roman and medieval jurists understood law, and this position is still tenable.