LY210 Lecture Notes - Harm Principle, Niklas Luhmann, Unobservable
Document Summary
Autonomy and permeability of law: takes on 2003 decision on the prohibition of weed. Sociologists state that there"s now a relationship between law and science. Luhmannian sociology otherwise states that law is an independant social system. Chinese people were doing well in b. c and had legal shops for opium remedies for headaches etc. People went to government in b. c and made it illegal due to racism etc. Accused of sins saying how systems operate without engines. The ways that people create meaning of the world though a series of individual constructs. The essences of things reside in the use of the difference through which they are given meaning. Self-referentiality of meaning doesn"t prevent speaking about facuality. Luhmann: we may agree or disagree on factuality and more than one dimension given to facts. Luhmann state that the overall concept of communication is neither expresiion, information, or understanding. This is the synthesis of the three elements.
