JUDICIAL DECISION, INTERPRETATION AND JUSTICE IN GADAMER'S THEORY

  • Carolina Torquato Maia Universidade de Fortaleza
  • Liane Maria Santiago Cavalcante Araújo Universidade de Fortaleza
  • Nagibe de Melo Jorge Neto Centro Universitário Christus – UniChristus
DOI: https://doi.org/10.21671/rdufms.v9i2.21089

Abstract

Understanding and interpreting are not tasks reserved for science; they belong to the existentialist activity of man in the world. In Law, behind the concept of justice there is a mutable and permanently open interpretive practice that aims to construct judicial decisions. Gadamer's theory of hermeneutic circle proposes a look at the past-present binomial, as an opportunity to re-signify the norm in the face of a given conflict. Thus, the question is: to what extent does the meaning of justice, according to Gadamer, experience a fluid and imprecise movement capable of pointing out a decisional truth in the face of the past/present binomial? The importance of the symbiotic existence between the application of the legal rule, created in the past, and the judicial analysis of the concrete case, in the present, is highlighted. It is a bibliographical and documentary research, with a qualitative approach, carried out in the theoretical field. Based on the results, it is observed that the Gadamerian decisional truth is the "best truth" obtained through a fluid and imprecise circular process, but able to enable the redefinition of normative contents, according to the dynamics of contents, contexts and Law Suit; and the possibility of understanding and interpreting the content of the rule from the experience of the magistrate, who must be open to the exercise of an environmental rationality.

Author Biographies

Carolina Torquato Maia, Universidade de Fortaleza

Advogada e Mestre em Direito Constitucional Público pela Universidade de Fortaleza – UNIFOR, Doutoranda em Direito Constitucional pela UNIFOR.

Liane Maria Santiago Cavalcante Araújo, Universidade de Fortaleza

Estágio Pós-Doutoral em Direito Constitucional pela Universidade de Fortaleza – UNIFOR. Doutora e Mestre em Direito Constitucional pela UNIFOR. Professora colaboradora do Programa de Pós Graduação em Direito Constitucional da UNIFOR. 

Nagibe de Melo Jorge Neto, Centro Universitário Christus – UniChristus

Doutor e Mestre em Direito pela Universidade Federal do Ceará – UFC, professor titular do Centro Universitário Christus – UniChristus, escritor.

Published
2025-03-06
Issue
Vol 9 No 2 (2023): Revista Direito UFMS
Section
Artigos

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