Paper's abstract

Pol Boucher, Jean-Louis Gardies's Legal Philosophy
J.-L. Gardies's legal philosophy has formed gradually, thanks to a set of works written over a period of more than twenty years, which focused on the study of moral and legal rationality. Its constant concern was to always establish a rela-tion of reciprocal confirmation/rectification between the contents of pheno-menological intuition and logical constructions. At the same time, he endea-vored to improve the tool allowing an analysis of the contents of legal concepts, by moving from a structuralist conception influenced by Reinach, to a logical writing stemming from the works of Hintikka and Kripke. He finally had the merit to insert these analyses in a more general study of natural speech grammar, which gave prominence to the rational properties common to juridical, logical and mathematical speeches.

Key Words : rationality, phenomenology, logic, structuralism, Reinach, Kripke, natural discourse
t. 49 : 2005, p. 319-333

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