Paper's abstract

Alexandre Zabalza, Research on the Metaphysical Meaning and on the Metalegal Impact of the Husserlian Sentence : "The Earth does not Move by Itself
May one establish a relationship between the Husserlian phrase "the earth does not move by itself" and the article 518 of the French civil code? A priori, no, for the terms seem to be absolutely in contradiction. However, the analysis offered by Husserl prefigures a new questioning of space, of the earth inside space, of the body in relation with the earth and lastly of the flesh on the Earth. It can then be extended to the relations that law creates between the persons and the earth, thus questioning the impact of legal qualifications and their metaphysical foundations, in a singular understanding of a legally clean and morally common earth.

Key Words : earth, Husserl
t. 46, 2002 : p. 379-406

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