Contrasting differences in identity and agency between narrative and autopoietic systems

Buitendag, Nico

dc.contributor.author	Buitendag, Nico
dc.date.accessioned	2013-10-31T07:36:35Z
dc.date.available	2013-10-31T07:36:35Z
dc.date.issued	2013-07-09
dc.description	This article represents a reworked version of aspects of the LLM dissertation (University of Pretoria), entitled ‘Rethinking time, ethics and justice: A jurisprudential perspective’ with Prof. Karin van Marle as supervisor. Advocate Nico Buitendag is a student at Leiden University, in the Netherlands.	en
dc.description.abstract	The article aims at contrasting the autopoietic understanding of an individual and her or his actions as described by Niklas Luhmann with Paul Ricoeur’s notion of narrative identity, focusing on people as legal subjects. The article assumes that when legal subjects necessitate ethical engagement and evaluation, the law could cease to deal with problems in a mere legalistic fashion but is allowed the freedom to appeal to norms of justice external to itself as in other natural law theories. Through narrative identity the deeds of role players are to be understood in greater complexity than what a self-referential legal system is comfortable in dealing with.	en
dc.description.librarian	am2013	en
dc.description.librarian	ai2014
dc.description.uri	http://www.hts.org.za	en
dc.description.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/25059	en
dc.identifier.citation	Buitendag, N., 2013, 'Contrasting differences in identity and agency between narrative and autopoietic systems', HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 69(1), Art. #1966, 7 pages. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.4102/hts.v69i1.1966	en
dc.identifier.issn	0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn	2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other	10.4102/hts.v69i1.1966
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/2263/32235
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	AOSIS Open Journals	en
dc.rights	© 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.	en
dc.subject	Narrative identity	en
dc.subject	Legal system	en
dc.subject	Legal identity and agency	en
dc.subject	Identity	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Law -- Philosophy	en
dc.subject.lcsh	Identity (Philosophical concept)	en
dc.title	Contrasting differences in identity and agency between narrative and autopoietic systems	en
dc.type	Article	en