“Antígona” de Sófocles e a questão jurídica fundamental: a eterna tensão entre segurança jurídica e correção

Sophocles’ Antigone has a prominent place in the Philosophy of Law. This tragedy expresses legal dilemmas and offers symbols that carry multiple interpretations. Throughout the centuries the work has been read, mostly, from a dualistic bias in which antagonistic pretensions of justice of Antigone an...

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Main Author: Seino Wiviurka, Eduardo
Format: Article
Language:Portuguese
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/oaiart?codigo=6573457
Source:Anamorphosis: Revista Internacional de Direito e Literatura, ISSN 2446-8088, null 4, Nº. 1, 2018, pags. 77-104
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Summary: Sophocles’ Antigone has a prominent place in the Philosophy of Law. This tragedy expresses legal dilemmas and offers symbols that carry multiple interpretations. Throughout the centuries the work has been read, mostly, from a dualistic bias in which antagonistic pretensions of justice of Antigone and Creon collide – the satisfaction of one point of view implies the destruction of the other. However, François Ost offered a new interpretation of the tension proposed by Sophocles, finding a third moment in which the conciliation between opposites is possible. Such a moment would be occupied by the jurisdictional function in which hermeneutics would seek the best conciliation between the litigating parties. This research, after discussing an overview of Antigone’s plot and detailing Ost’s contribution, goes beyond Ost and argues from prominent names in contemporary Philosophy of Law (namely, Habermas, Alexy and Dworkin) that the tension present in Antigone is structurally analogous to legal issues faced throughout history.