Law as ratio scripta
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/pcl/article/view/18322/17758" target="_blank" >https://journals.us.edu.pl/index.php/pcl/article/view/18322/17758</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31261/PaCL.2024.10.2.03" target="_blank" >10.31261/PaCL.2024.10.2.03</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Law as ratio scripta
Original language description
The paper examines the relationship between law and rationality from multiple perspectives. As early as the Middle Ages, the canonist Gratian attempted to reconcile conflicting legal provisions using rational criteria in his monumental work. The humanist legal theorist Hugo Grotius referred to the ancient codifications of Roman law issued by Emperor Justinian as “written reason.” Grotius also identified “the dictate of right reason” within natural law. Civil law codifications of the 19th and 20th centuries, beginning with the Napoleonic Code, drew upon both Roman and natural law, aspiring once again to perfect rationality. The Catholic Church joined this endeavor by organizing canonical material into the first Code of Canon Law, promulgated in 1917. The ecclesiastical legislator further adopted Justinian’s division of matters into persons, things, and actions. The current Code of Canon Law also operates with rationality, exemplified by its requirement that a custom must be “reasonable.” What contravenes natural law is deemed irrational, for example the ecclesiastical legislator establishes the impediment of consanguinity as a norm of natural divine law. As an example of irrational law, the article highlights the Slovak legislator’s requirement that a petition for the recognition of a new church or religious society by the state must be accompanied by more than 50,000 signatures. It is evident that no unregistered religious society could meet this requirement, nor could the majority of churches already recognized by the state.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>ost</sub> - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60303 - Theology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Philosophy and Canon Law
ISSN
2450-4955
e-ISSN
2451-2141
Volume of the periodical
10
Issue of the periodical within the volume
červenec
Country of publishing house
PL - POLAND
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
1-15
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
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