Kazimierz Opalek Selected Papers in Legal Philosophy

Editor's Introduction. I. General Problems of Legal Philosophy. The `General Science of Law': Main Approaches and Their History. The Peculiarities of the Study of Law and the Question of Integration. The Complexity of Law and of the Methods of its Study. State and Law: An Attempt at Integration of the Juristic with the Sociological Approach. The Problem of the Validity of Law. The Rule of Law and Natural Law. Internal and External Integration of the Study of Law. Law and Politics in Time and Space. Present Status of Legal Philosophy. The Concept of `Positive Law'. Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy. II. Problems of Norms and Legal Language. Some Problems of the Theory of Norms. The Problem of `Directive Meaning'. The Problem of the Existence of the Norm. On the Logical-Semantic Structure of Directives. Norm and Conduct, the Problem of the `Fulfilment' of the Norm. Directives, Optatives, and Value Statements. Directive Discourse. `Doing Things with Words' and the Law. Directives, Norms, and Performatives.