Paper's abstract

Marie-Anne Frison-Roche, Immaterial through Virtuality
Immaterial is often alluded to by the word virtuality, which has been incorporated to the legal language. But double meanings bring confusion and make uncertain the application of legal systems. In fact, in the law, virtuality may be, in the Aristotelian sense, an anticipation of a future but certain development of things. The law, by taking this point into account, travels in time. In a newer way, virtuality may be, in a Platonic sense, an autonomous world of images and ideas, that law has to grasp through imagination. It then travels through space.

Key Words : virtuality, Aristotle, Plato
t. 43, 1999 : p. 139-148

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