Decisão e história: uma exploração da experiência jurídica a partir das estruturas basais da decisão judicial

Abstract

These reflections have as object the judicial decision and intend to investigate the conditions under which a court decides. That is, we intend to give an account here of what happens and what is implicated when a legal issue is decided. It is intended to take the phenomenon of judicial decision as an object of analysis to ask for what sustains it and it is presupposed on the agent decider activity. We want to know if it is possible to affirm a basic fabric showing how the concepts that are articulated and operationalized by the author of a legal decision may make sense. These issues place in the foreground of the analysis, the problem of recovering the historical sense and the theoretical possibilities that are involved in it. The answers to these questions require the construction of theoretical tools that allow investigating the element of the historicity of meaning. This research makes use of hermeneutics in the twentieth century produced complemented by the element of epistemological history of concepts and metaforology. Making use of these instruments, the research tries to point out that the traditional approaches that incorporate traditional bipolarities to portray the decision problem, such as: universal-particular; law-fact, statute-case etc., end up eclipsing the true basal element that sustains the legal experience and that emerge from cultural and moral settings that makes up the horizon of sense of political community.