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Legal teaching in prudence: The legal positivist myth of the given is still a monster on the lurk

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Vol. 9 No. 2 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2022.65120
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Abstract

In the article, the "myth of the given", a legal positivist postulate of objectivity, is critically analyzed, as well as its negative reflections on the relationship between Law and justice. Furthermore, it is investigated the potential role of legal education in overcoming that conception of Law, uncompromised with its raison d'être. The problem identified is the concealment of prejudices under the guise of neutrality of what legal positivism considers to be beforehand given to it. The question answered is: how can legal teaching contribute to overcoming the legal positivist “myth of the given”, which today is viewed as theoretical common sense? The research is qualitative bibliographical. It promotes a philosophical approach to the problem, in a complex post-Gadamerian hermeneutic paradigm – to the detriment of the classic deductivist legal positivist paradigm. The following results are presented: legal teaching, in order to overcome the legal positivist postulate of "neutral data", needs to focus on activities that exercise prudence, stimulating, with regard to the perception of the acts of the present, all the multiple intelligences of the human being.

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Legal teaching , legal positivism , myth of the given , prudence , multiple intelligences

Author Biographies

Fábio Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto, Universidade de Fortaleza

PhD student in Constitutional Law at the University of Fortaleza. Master in Law and Conflict Management from the University of Fortaleza. Postgraduate degree in Business Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Graduated in Law from the State University of Rio de Janeiro. Ceará State Attorney. Attorney. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1736-6493. email:fabiocapeixoto@gmail.com

Ana Paula Assis Buosi, Universidad de Fortaleza

Ana Paula Assis Buosi holds a Master's Degree in Constitutional Law from the University of Fortaleza. Scholarship holder from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES-BRASIL). Postgraduate student in Cybersecurity at the Federal University of Ceará. Specialist in Mediation and Conflict Management from the University of Fortaleza. Graduated in Law from the University of Fortaleza. Judicial conciliator and mediator. Attorney. His e-mail address is anabuosi@gmail.com. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3275-8839

Eduardo Rocha Dias, Universidad de Fortaleza

Doctor in Law from the University of Lisbon. Master in Legal Order and Constitutional Law from the Federal University of Ceará. Graduated in Law from the Federal University of Ceará. Federal Attorney - special category - of the Attorney General's Office and Professor of the Graduate Program in Law at the University of Fortaleza. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0972-354X . e-mail: eduardorochadias@unifor.br

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Carvalho de Alvarenga Peixoto, F., Assis Buosi, A. P., & Rocha Dias, E. (2022). Legal teaching in prudence: The legal positivist myth of the given is still a monster on the lurk. Revista Pedagogía Universitaria Y Didáctica Del Derecho, 9(2), pp. 257–273. https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-5885.2022.65120
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