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Document: Herman Dooyeweerd, Sociology of Law & its Philosophical Foundations (n.d.).
Excerpt: Even a first, provisional attempt to delimit the area of sociology of law from other “modal”- branches of sociology, such as sociology of ethics, of “religion”, of language, economics, art, etc., is inescapably confronted with a problem of legal philosophy. This problem concerns the transcendental-juridical experiential mode of the social relationships, both as to its general modal distinctness from, and its inner coherence with all other transcendental modes of experience (modal aspects) of these relationships.
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