Knowledge vs Experience

This Chapter explores in detail some of the book’s main philosophical themes, paving the way for the historical, philosophical, and comparative contextualisation of scientia iuris’ origins and development which follows thereafter. These include what distinguishes knowledge from experience philosophically; why the intellectualisation of life, Prometheus Bound, and scientia iuris are related; what ordinary and scientific knowledge are and share, despite all attempts at separating them; and why identifying what unites ordinary and scientific knowledge is of primary importance to understand what legal knowledge is and entails. As the Chapter shows, the proposed analysis enables one to appreciate not only scientia iuris’ origins and development but also, its role in how lawyers are educated, think, and practise their profession in both Civil and Common law jurisdictions.