Contrasting differences in identity and agency between narrative and autopoietic systems

dc.contributor.authorBuitendag, Nico
dc.date.accessioned2013-10-31T07:36:35Z
dc.date.available2013-10-31T07:36:35Z
dc.date.issued2013-07-09
dc.descriptionThis 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.abstractThe 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.librarianam2013en
dc.description.librarianai2014
dc.description.urihttp://www.hts.org.zaen
dc.description.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/25059en
dc.identifier.citationBuitendag, 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.v69i1.1966en
dc.identifier.issn0259-9422 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2072-8050 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4102/hts.v69i1.1966
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/32235
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAOSIS Open Journalsen
dc.rights© 2013. The Authors. Licensee: AOSIS OpenJournals. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License.en
dc.subjectNarrative identityen
dc.subjectLegal systemen
dc.subjectLegal identity and agencyen
dc.subjectIdentityen
dc.subject.lcshLaw -- Philosophyen
dc.subject.lcshIdentity (Philosophical concept)en
dc.titleContrasting differences in identity and agency between narrative and autopoietic systemsen
dc.typeArticleen

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