O conceito de princípio entre a otimização e a resposta correta: aproximações sobre o problema da fundamentação e da discricionariedade das decisões judiciais a partir da fenomenologia hermenêutica

Abstract

The reflections expressed in this work had as their objective to phrase philosophically the question for the concept of principle, using the procedures of hermeneutical phenomenology to give rise to the deconstruction of sedimentations produced by legal language, catching them in their way of happening. We proceed this way because in jurist’s everyday life the word principle is employed in different ways, leading to opposite meanings. To understand such meanings we had to dive into a deep dimension into which the basis behind each one would appear. Such a fundamental dimension, which in a way supports the discourse about Law, was placed having Kant’s legal philosophy as it’s central point. Placing Kant as an element to spray philosophical thought on Law it was possible to realize how was edified the tradition over which are settled the main legal theories built in the Continent during the first half of the 20th century. This allowed us to show how Robert Alexy inherits an irreconcilable aporia: the phenomenon