Najogólniej rzecz ujmując, consilium nazywano poradę prawną, będącą w swej istocie analizą określonego problemu prawnego, sporządzaną w języku łacińskim w średniowieczu i w epokach następnych, najczęściej przez mających uniwersyteckie przygotowanie jurystów. Celem artykułu jest przedstawienie consilium w kontekście innych gatunków literackich, w ramach których juryści związani ze szkołami glosatorów i komentatorów formułowali swoje refleksje nad prawem.
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Generally speaking, the consilium is legal advice, which is primarily an analysis of a specific legal problem, drafted in Latin during the Middle Ages and in subsequent centuries by university-trained lawyers. The aim of the paper is to describe the consilium in the context of other legal literary genres used by jurists connected with schools of glossators and commentators to formulate their reflections on the law.
One of the main difficulties that Neoplatonic commentators of Aristotle face is the different treatment that the Categories and the Metaphysics offer to the question of the substance. After describing briefly the status quaestionis ousiae in Aristotle, and after tracing the main Neoplatonic interpretations of this doctrine (from Plotinus’ negative one to Porphyry’s positive and “conciliatory” one), this article attempts to demonstrate that the Neoplatonists of Athens and Alexandria, Syrianus and Ammonius, inaugurate a new interpretation of the Aristotelian doctrine. With regard to the category of substance in general and to the question of substantiality of “immanent form” in particular, this new interpretation goes beyond the positions of Plotinus and Porphyry and returns the ontological value to the Aristotelian substances. Unlike Plotinus, who recognized as ousia only that one intelligible, that is five genres of the Platonic Sophist, and unlike Porphyry, who defused the anti–Platonic fuse of the Categories, giving to this treaty a mainly semantic skopos, these philosophers, through their original study of the theory of the three states of katholou, already shed in the Porphyrian Eisagôgê, fit the immanent forms of Aristotle, recognized as substances and as a reflection of the transcendental universal, into the late antique Neoplatonic metaphysical triadic structure.
Che la libertà contrattuale, espressa nel broccardo pacta sunt servanda, fosse diventata un principio pressoché indiscutibile nelle teorie giusnaturalistiche dell’Illuminismo, è conoscenza comune. Le sue radici sono tuttavia molto più profonde, in quanto risalgono al pensiero dei giuscanonisti medievali – i primi sostenitori della forza obbligatoria delle promesse informali. quello che ha portato al riconoscimento defnitivo del principio in questione è stato però un processo lungo e complesso. L’obbiettivo del presente articolo consiste nell’individuare i momenti cruciali di questo sviluppo, al quale hanno contribuito molte correnti intellettuali – dalla canonistica, attraverso la seconda scolastica, fino al giusnaturalismo dell’età dei Lumi. Senza tentare di decidere quale di queste correnti abbia portato il contributo decisivo alla creazione del principio in questione, come ha fatto la letteratura precedente, si propone la tesi che è stata la somma dei detti contributi, ciascuno di pari importanza, a portare all’affermarsi della libertà contrattuale nel pensiero giuridico dell’età moderna. Le presenti considerazioni sono focalizzate sullo sviluppo dei concetti, quali la nozione generale del contratto, il suo rapporto al concetto della promessa, la volontà umana come la fonte dell’obbligatorietà del contratto, nonché la giustifcazione morale di tale forza obbligatoria.
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It is generally known that freedom of contract, as expressed by the pacta sunt servanda rule, became an unquestionable principle of contract law in the theories of natural law developed in the Enlightenment. However, the roots of this principle go back much further in time, to the doctrine formulated by the medieval Canonists, who were the first to say that unilateral promises, even informal ones, were binding. Nevertheless, a long process led from these early beginnings to the definitive recognition of the principle. Te aim of the present article is to identify the crucial moments in this development, to which many different intellectual traditions contributed: from the doctrine of natural law formulated by the Canonists, through the Second Scholastic teachings pursued at the School of Salamanca, to the theories of natural law developed in the early Enlightenment. Unlike the general practice in the literature produced on the subject hitherto, my intention is not to pinpoint the exact time when the principle was created, and still less to ascribe it to any one of these intellectual movements. My argument is that it was only the overall outcome of these contributions, each of them equally important, that led to the recognition of the principle. My article focuses on its conceptual evolution, considering themes such as the creation of the general notion of the contract, its relation to the concept of a promise, the capacity of the human will to bind itself by a promise, and the moral grounds for its binding force.
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Jak powszechnie wiadomo, swoboda umów awansowała do rangi podstawowej zasady prawa kontraktowego w doktrynach prawnonaturalnych epoki oświecenia. Jej korzenie są jednak znacznie głębsze, sięgają bowiem myśli średniowiecznych kanonistów, którzy jako pierwsi głosili tezę o wiążącym charakterze jednostronnych przyrzeczeń, nawet tych nieformalnych. Od tych pierwszych początków do pełnego uznania zasdy swobody umów prowadziła jednak długa droga. Celem przedłożonego artykułu jest ustalenie kluczowych momentów tego rozwoju. Przyczynili się do niego przedstawiciele wielu różnych nurtów myślowych: od wczesnośredniowiecznej kanonistyki, poprzez drugą scholastykę ze szkoły w Salamance, po teorie prawnonaturalne początków oświecenia. Inaczej niż w dotychczasowej literaturze, nie jest intencją autorki ustalenie dokładnego momentu powstania omawianej zasady ani tym bardziej przypisanie jej autorstwa jednemu ze wskazanych nurtów. Zgodnie z proponowaną tezą zasada swobody umów w jej współczesnym kształcie powstała w wyniku interakcji wszystkich tych tradycji, przy czym wkład intelektualny każdej z nich był równie istotny. Artykuł skupia się na historii pojęć, takich jak ogólne pojęcie kontraktu, jego relacja do przyrzeczenia, koncepcja woli jako źródła zobowiązania kontraktowego oraz moralne uzasadnienie mocy wiążącej kontraktów nieformalnych.
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