Aksjologia prawa Stanisława Czepity

Abstract

The aim of the paper was to present fundamental assumptions of axiology of law by Stanisław Czepita and broadly formulate his scientific attitude. As to the second issue, his approach can be described as analytical. The analytical sources of Stanisław Czepita’s scientific approach can be identified in three layers. Firstly, he attached great importance to conceptual analysis. Secondly, he treated the particular legal sciences very seriously, particularly civil law dogmatics. Lastly, Stanisław Czepita developed cooperation with the philosophy of language, semiotics and the philosophy of logic. As to axiology of law, at the beginning of his research he was a moderate cognitivist but later he accepted that values exist objectively and that they are cognizable. Although Stanisław Czepita belongs to the analytical camp, one can classify him as an iusnaturalist. In other words, analytical approach can be easily combined with cognitivism and formulating moral demands towards law.

Keywords

• Stanislaw Czepita
• axiology of law
• ontology of values
• analysis of law
• natural law theory