Chaim Perelman Books

May 20, 1912 – January 22, 1984

Chaïm Perelman, a Polish-born philosopher of law, dedicated much of his life to studying and teaching in Brussels. He stands as one of the most significant argumentation theorists of the twentieth century. His seminal work explores the intricacies of how persuasion and argumentation function across various domains. Perelman's contribution offers a profound understanding of human interaction, establishing the new rhetoric as a vital tool for analysis and insight.

The New Rhetoric
576 pages
21 hours of reading
Since the time of Descartes, demonstrative sciences have been considered the realm of rationality, while everything that is not demonstrable has been relegated to the realm of the irrational. Thus, ethics, sociology, law, psychology, and rhetoric have remained excluded from strict logic. The theory of argumentation aims to reintroduce rationality into the human sciences that operate with non-demonstrative means of proof. The issues related to argumentation concern various disciplines: from literature to sociology, from law to psychology. The theory of argumentation addresses them from its own perspective as the logic of non-demonstrative sciences.
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Logik und Argumentation
140 pages
5 hours of reading
Právna logika
272 pages
10 hours of reading
Vďaka výbornému prekladu Miroslava Marcelliho sprístupňujeme v edícii Exempla iuris slávne Perelmanove dielo Právna logika. Právna logika skúma teórie právneho usudzovania a právnu argumentáciu od čias Napoleonovho zákonníka až po súčasnosť. Zaoberá sa antinómiami v práve a poukazuje na špecifiká právneho usudzovania. Autor sa tiež zameriava na problematiku rozhodovania sudcov, obzvlášť na odôvodnenia súdnych rozhodnutí. V tomto kontexte sa vynára stále aktuálna otázka: majú sa súdne rozhodnutia prispôsobovať iba zákonu alebo majú vyhovovať aj našej potrebe spravodlivosti?

The New Rhetoric

Logik und Argumentation

Právna logika