Professional paper
The Destruction of the Environment through Building and the Legal System
Boris MORSAN
Vlasta BEGOVIĆ
Sanja FILEP
Abstract
The destruction of the environment through building is a
most recent phenomenon. Its rapid expansion is setting new
tasks for environmental protection. The road to valuable
architectural achievements is dwindling due to numerous
disturbances. Society, for the most part, is not attaining its
goals because of incoherent behaviour. A comparison
presents itself in which the disturbed functioning of society resembles the behaviour of mentally disturbed individuals,
described in individual psychology and psychiatry. These
disturbances also appear in the legal system which should
regulate the path towards architecture. They can be observed
on the level of laws and rules as well as on the level of
application and implementation of regulations. On both
levels one of the main principles of the philosophy of law
has been violated, the one stating that no law or regulation
is allowed to transgress the perceptions society has arrived at
(nor can it break the moral norms). In the examples
described a disturbance occurs due to different interests
imposing the renunciation of the perceptions attained and
obstruction of the correct practice in architecture.
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Hrčak ID:
19594
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Publication date:
31.12.2002.
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