O uso ciativo dos paradoxos do direito na aplicação de princípios constitucionais : abertura, autoritarismo e pragmatismo na jurisdição constitucional brasileira

AUTOR(ES)

Guilherme Francisco Alfredo Cintra Guimarães

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

The main purpose of this dissertation is to explore the paradoxical structure of constitutional principles as a mean to observe some risks in their enforcement by the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court. More specifically, the risks of an authoritarian and a pragmatic justification of decisions that enforce especially the principle of proportionality, a principle more and more used by brazilian courts. The theory of modern society formulated by Niklas Luhmann is the epistemological basis of this study. There are two chapters. The first one describes firstly the core structural characteristics of modern society as conceived by Luhmanns theory (topic 1.1.). In a further step, constitutional principles are described as a paradoxical invention of modern constitutionalism and the reflections of contemporary legal theory that makes possible legal system to use creatively his paradoxes in judicial decisions capable of maintaining the open future of modernity (topics 1.2. and 1.3.). In the second chapter, after an analysis of the role of moral and consequentialist arguments in legal reasoning (topic 2.1.), the principle of proportionality is described as a specific strategy of deparadoxification that increases the risks of an authoritarian moral reading of the constitution and of a pragmatic use of its principles, risks that are observed by the analysis of three emblematic decisions of Brazilian Federal Supreme Court (topics 2.2. and 2.3.). The conclusive remarks attempt to demonstrate that authoritarian and pragmatic strategies of deparadoxification are inappropriate because of the open and differentiated structure of modern society and because of the counterfactual and amoral functioning of its positive law, characteristics that are reflected by the artificial and paradoxical structure of constitutional principles.

ASSUNTO(S)

sociedade moderna direito princípios constitucionais paradoxos

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