Truth and legal argumentation in Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Karamazov Brothers
We examine the reasons of the judicial error in the Dmitry Karamazov case depicted by Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Karamazov Brothers and argue that the truth can and should be established in both of the process types, adversary and investigative, and that the three con-ceptions of truth, referential, i...
| Published in: | Вестник Томского государственного университета. Философия. Социология. Политология № 48. С. 193-204 |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Online Access: | http://vital.lib.tsu.ru/vital/access/manager/Repository/vtls:000661509 Перейти в каталог НБ ТГУ |
| Summary: | We examine the reasons of the judicial error in the Dmitry Karamazov case depicted by Fyodor Dostoevsky in The Karamazov Brothers and argue that the truth can and should be established in both of the process types, adversary and investigative, and that the three con-ceptions of truth, referential, inferential and pragmatic, play an evaluative role in that. The Dmitry Karamazov case shows that the formal view of the truth suffices for deciding a case, but it cannot prevent judicial errors when the epistemological ideal of the material truth falls into oblivion. |
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| Bibliography: | Библиогр.: 23 назв. |
| ISSN: | 1998-863X |