The Bounds of Law

Abstract

The article is dedicated to the reasoning of the bounds of law. The specificity of the chosen approach expresses itself as the attempt to clarify, what gives us a possibility to consider this or that entity as “Law.” It’s worth to remark, that any scientist, never mind on his/her scientific specificity, tends to hypertrophy the meaning of scientific subject. For example, a mathematician imagines the Universe as a sequence of numbers, (whereas) a chemist tries to represent it as the unity of chemical elements that are disposed in various relations to each other. However, a biologist considers the environment as a totality of living creatures, and a sociologist, in its turn, intents to put a human measure on everything in order to represent world through the human relations. Thus, even despite the mentioned tendency, legal science hypertrophies its relevance in a very extraordinary way. The absoluteness of law doesn’t recognize any measures. In accordance with the point of view of classical jurisprudence, law as the world of the Ought penetrates all the space andtime, law is relevant to every circumstances and doesn’t leave any gaps. That is to say, similar to religion, law turns itself into the eye of providence, which observes on the any human deeds and connects to them its legal consequences. So, the logical conclusion of the similar view is that the any humanrelation, which has ever existed in the history, is already ordered by law, whether natural, positive or common law. If we try to express this statement by the language of classical jurisprudence, it’s possible to say, that we can apply the legal form on all the human relations improperly, nonethelesson the specificity of its content. At the same time, such events as wars, revolutions, catastrophes clearly indicate that in the similar circumstances law loses its validity. Similarly, family relationship, relations between friends, colleagues, rivals in the sport competitions cannot be ordered properly by the means of law. Thus, the academic novelty of the author’s approach lies in the attempt to clarify the conditions of the possibility of the reasoning the Being of law. So, we can come to conclusion that it’s necessary to reconsider law as the language of law, which is embodied in the living bodily co-presentation of the Other and gives us a possibility to conceptualize the bounds of law adequately.