L'universalisme onto-téléologique : Théorie générale du droit. Abrégé anticipé de l'ouvrage Métaphysique du droit à paraître
Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: Global polycrisis, the disenchantment of the world, the collapse of grand narratives: the world order, still running on eighteenth-century postulates, is unravelling, and timorous democracy, disarmed by a relativism that conflates verifiable fact with opinion, faces an unprecedented crisis of justification. Whether positivist, natural-law or critical, classical theories share the same blind spot: mistaking a single stratum of being for the whole of reality, all stumble at the extra-legal ground they must postulate without being able to derive—from Kelsen’s Grundnorm and Weyr’s Východisko to Hart’s rule of recognition and Finnis’s self-evident goods. Métaphysique du droit, a forthcoming treatise of which this text is the advance abridgement, establishes a general theory of law for the twenty-first century: onto-teleological universalism. Combining Nicolai Hartmann’s critical ontology of strata in the tradition of the Brno School (Vladimír Kubeš), complexity theory and open-system thermodynamics, the work demonstrates that the Arkhè of law lies in the bio-psycho-socio-environmental (BPSE) essence of humanity and the necessity of its maintenance against entropy. Across six parts (deconstruction of the old order, ontology, teleology, axiology, epistemology, praxeology), it establishes six guiding results: (1) law is the human species’ synchronisation protocol and its “synthetic nociception” against entropic delay; (2) Hume’s guillotine is resolved through spatio-temporal and volitional framing, demonstrating the objective existence of obligation as the energetic equivalent of required maintenance work (O = ΔWrequis); (3) no guaranteed right is ever free (ΣO = |Odir| + Φadmin); (4) any constraint lacking an objective maintenance necessity is not a lesser obligation, but domination (O ⇔ N), formally disqualifying ideology and reversing the burden of proof against the State; (5) the constitutive principles of universal law, read from reality rather than granted, replace subjective interest-balancing with a strict causal order of precedence ([E] > [B] > [P] > [S]), objectifying Radbruch’s formula and deterministically resolving classical aporias; (6) law is founded as a falsifiable science of interfaces. Far from instituting a technocracy, this rigour achieves the “privatisation of the absolute”: by confining public coercion to the maintenance of the vital substrate alone, it turns the laws of thermodynamics into the shield of the mind’s unconditional freedom and restores law to its foundational promise—granting everyone the security to fall asleep free and in peace.
Author: Hrenák, Jaroslav
Language: French
Topic: Legal and Social Philosophy
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225047713