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9Jog és filozófia: antológia a század első felének polgári jogelméleti irodalma köréből (edited book)Akadémia Kiadó. 1981.
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7Algunas cuestiones metodológicas de la formación de los conceptos en ciencias jurídicasInstituto de Filosofía del Derecho LUZ, Facultad de Derecho. 1982.Includes bibliographical references.
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6Jogi elméletek, jogi kultúrák: kritikák, ismertetések a jogfilozófia és az összehasonlító jog köréből[ELTE Állam- és Jogtudományi Kar]. 1994.
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Etudes en philosophie du droit =Projet sur des cultures juridiques comparées de la Faculté de droit de l'Université Loránd Eötvös. 1994.
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8Jog és filozófia: antológia a század első felének kontinentális jogi gondolkodása köréből (edited book)Osiris. 1998.Classical texts of continental legal theorising in Hungarian translation: RUDOLF VON JHERING: Kampf ums Recht [1872] / EUGEN EHRLICH: Freie Rechtsfindung und freie Rechtswissenschaft [1903] / HERMANN KANTOROWICZ: Der Kampf um die Rechtswissenschaft [1906] / RUDOLF STAMMLER: Richtiges Recht [1908] & excerpts from his Theorie der Rechtswissenschaft [1911/1923] & Richtiges Recht [1921] / FRANÇOIS GÉNY: Science et technique en droit privé positif [1924: excerpts] / GUSTAV RADBRUCH: Rechtsphilosophie…Read more
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7The paradigms of legal thinkingSzent István Társulat. 2012.La 4e de couverture indique : "The author introduces the reader to reasoning in law through the possilities, boundaries and traps of assuming personal responsibility and impersonal pattern adoption that have arisen in the history of human thought and in the various legal cultures. He discloses actual processes hidden by the veil of patterns followed in thinking, processes that we encounter both in our conceptual-logical quests for certainties and in the undertaking of fertilising ambiguity. When…Read more
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4‘Judicial mind’ in operation, considered differently in Civil Law and in Common Law, is taken as a ‘black-box’ with the ‘magic’ role played by legal technicalities, in which manipulation with facts and rules transubstantiates problem solving into justification.
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4Jogi elméletek, jogi kultúrák: kritikák, ismertetések a jogfilozófia és az összehasonlító jog köréből[ELTE Állam- és Jogtudományi Kar]. 1994.
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5240Reedition of papers in English spanning from 1986 to 2009 /// Historical background -- An imposed legacy -- Twentieth century contemporaneity -- Appendix: The philosophy of teaching legal philosophy in Hungary /// HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- PHILOSOPHY OF LAW IN CENTRAL & EASTERN EUROPE: A SKETCH OF HISTORY [1999] 11–21 // PHILOSOPHISING ON LAW IN THE TURMOIL OF COMMUNIST TAKEOVER IN HUNGARY (TWO PORTRAITS, INTERWAR AND POSTWAR: JULIUS MOÓR & ISTVÁN LOSONCZY) [2001–2002] 23–39: Julius Moór 23 / Is…Read more
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The philosophy of the construction and operation of european lawRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 88 (3): 313-344. 2011.
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992Rechtsphilosophische Aufsätze (edited book)Budapest: ELTE “Comparative Legal Cultures” Project. 1994.Photomechanical reprint of papers & review articles from 1974 to 1992 mostly in German, some in Swedish or Danish: AUFSÄTZE ‘Beiträge zu den Beziehungen zwischen Gustav Radbruch & Georg Lukács’ [1979] / ‘Die Entwicklung des rechtstheoretischen Denkens in der Ungarischen Räterepublik’ [1969] / ‘Die Kodifikation & ihr Verfall in der Entwicklungsgeschichte der bürgerlichen Demokratie’ [1978] / ‘Rationalitet och rättens objektifiering’ [1975] / ‘Utopi og Kodifikation’ [1976] / ‘Historisches Wesen & …Read more
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1Lectures on the Paradigms of Legal ThinkingAkademiai Kiads. 1999.Legal philosopher Varga introduces readers to reasoning in law by leading them through the possibilities, boundaries, and traps of assuming personal responsibility and impersonal pattern adoption that have arisen in the history of human thought and in the various legal cultures. He seeks to reveal the actual processed hidden by the veil of patterns that are followed in thinking, processed that people encounter both in conceptual-logical quests for certainties and in the undertaking of fertilizin…Read more
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1Ex Post Facto LegislationIn Christopher Berry Gray (ed.), The philosophy of law: an encyclopedia, Garland. pp. 274--276. 1999.
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Central and Eastern European Philosophy of LawIn Christopher Berry Gray (ed.), The philosophy of law: an encyclopedia, Garland. pp. 98--100. 1999.
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1The Contemporaneity of Lukács’ Ideas with Modern Social Theoretical ThoughtArchiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie 99 (1): 42-54. 2013.Investingating mediations between the social total complex and its partial complexes, Lukács emphasised language and law as aents having the sole function to mediate. Ideology as part of human’s societal existence is itself organic component of the ontology of social existence. The way we think in is part of what we truly are. Juristic world-view as the deontoloy of the legal profession is one of the factors of the law’s social existence. Actual decision making in law is modelled by the logic of…Read more
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Modern Polgári Jogelméleti Tanulmányok (edited book)Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Állam- és Jogtudományi Intézete. 1977.[Papers from modern western legal theory] Translation of HANS KELSEN ‘The Law as a Specific Social Technique’ [1941] [trans. Csaba Varga] 1–22, excerpts from RUDOLF STAMMLER Theorie der Rechtswissenschaft [1923: 4–11, 24–28 & 76–82] 23–43, from FELIX [BÓDOG] SOMLÓ Juristische Grundlehre [1927: §§ 17, 29–30, 32–35 & III] 45–61, from EUGEN EHRLICH Grundlegung der Soziologie des Rechts [1913: XXI/II] 63–79, from JEROME FRANK Law and the Modern Mind [1930: 3–21, 29–34, 37–38, 108–125] 81–94, from AX…Read more
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916Law and philosophy: selected papers in legal theory (edited book)ELTE “Comparative Legal Cultures” Project. 1994.Photomechanical reprint of papers from 1970 to 1992 mostly in English, some in German or French: Foreword 1–4; LAW AS PRACTICE ‘La formation des concepts en sciences juridiques’ 7–33, ‘Geltung des Rechts – Wirksamkeit des Rechts’ 35–42, ‘Macrosociological Theories of Law’ 43–76, ‘Law & its Inner Morality’ 77–89, ‘The Law & its Limits’ 91–96; LAW AS TECHNIQUE ‘Domaine »externe« & domaine »interne« en droit’ 99–117, ‘Die ministerielle Begründung’ 119–139, ‘The Preamble’ 141–167, ‘Presumption & Fic…Read more
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3Change of paradigms in legal reconstruction: Carls Schmitt and the temptation to finally reach a synthesisRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 4 (4): 691-708. 2004.
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3171Reflections on Law and Its Inner MoralityRivista Internazionale di Filosofia Del Diritto 62 (3): 439-451. 1985.1. Law and morals as two systems of norms, and the inner morality of law 2. Law as a value bearer and as a mere external indicator 3. The inner and external moral credit of legislator 4. The inner morality of law. As to the last paragraph, the most striking feature of the inner morality of law is that it is such a possible characteristic, surplus quality which is not a sine qua non, which law is conceivable without. However, it is a question whether law can long do without it? In principle, the …Read more
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CodificationIn Christopher Berry Gray (ed.), The philosophy of law: an encyclopedia, Garland. pp. 120--122. 1999.
Csaba Varga
Pazmany Peter Catholic University Of Hungary
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Pazmany Peter Catholic University Of HungaryFaculty Of LawDistinguished Professor
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