STEPS TOWARDS AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO LAW

Authors

  • Julio Cesar de Aguiar Catholic University of Brasília, Brasília - DF.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i1.36244

Keywords:

Radical behaviorism. Second-order social contingency. Social system. Sociocultural selection.

Abstract

The article puts forward some fundamental ideas for the development of an evolutionary approach to law based on the radical behaviorist concept of a social system as a web of interlocked behavioral patterns. After discussing the three levels of behavioral evolution, namely phylogenetic, ontogenetic and sociocultural, the article explains how the emergence of a functionally specialized legal system based on legal organizations was able to internalize the process of legal evolution through the selection of legal norms by means of second-order legal contingencies.

Author Biography

Julio Cesar de Aguiar, Catholic University of Brasília, Brasília - DF.

Mestre em Filosofia pela UFG, doutor em Direito pela UFSC, PhD in Law pela University of Abedeen, UK. Professor da Graduação e do Mestrado em Direito da UCB.

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Published

2014-08-09

How to Cite

de Aguiar, J. C. (2014). STEPS TOWARDS AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH TO LAW. Revista Da Faculdade De Direito UFPR, 60(1), 9–38. https://doi.org/10.5380/rfdufpr.v60i1.36244

Issue

Vol. 60 No. 1 (2015)

Section

Artigos

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