ARTICLES:
Leon Petrażycki on Norms and Their Logical Study
Issue: 7:4 (The twenty eighth issue)
In this paper we discuss L. Petrażycki’s idea of norm as a normative relation
and show its repercussions in two perspectives connected to each other, in the
legal theory in the framework of which it was originally introduced and where
its role was straightforward, and in logic where it played a shadowy role of a
fresh idea which in his expectation would have been the core of the novel
logical theories capable of modelling reasoning in law and morals. We pay
attention to the scholarly environment in which Petrażycki has proposed those
ideas and to the