Csaba Varga

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 problem solving with open chanes within an open referential frame, upon which the logic of justification is built as added to the former posteriorly. Lukács designated the settling of the conflict of interests involved through the law’s system of fulfilment as manipulation. This substantiates the personal responsibility of the decision maker.

[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 AXEL HÄGERSTRÖM On Fundamental Problems of Law [1930: 348–366] 95–111, from A. VILHELM LUNDSTEDT Legal Thinking Revised [1956: I–II] 113–128, as well as GUSTAV RADBRUCH ‘Gesetzliches Unrecht und übergesetzliches Recht’ [1946] 129–139; w/ Indexes of names & of subjects. The series of translation had been prepared for the forthcoming collection of Jog és filozófia (1981). In the meantime the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Institute for Legal Studies director Imre Szabó rejected their involvement for ideological reasons but, at the same time, approved their publication in own non-official volume.