Zetetic Reflections and Legal Science: the rescue of prudence and hermeneutic criticism in Tax Law

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https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2025.81339

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legal hermeneutics, legal dogmatics, prudence, tax law, legal science

Abstract

edmund burkeThis study aims to investigate the historical elements underlying the formation of dogmatic thought in the Science of Law and its implications in the field of taxation, analyzing the predominant hermeneutical currents during the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. By adopting the hypothetical-deductive method, predominantly relying on bibliographic research, the objective is to analyze the impacts of this influence on interpretative approaches in the Brazilian tax experience. Additionally, recent hermeneutical and methodological debates on the role of the legal interpreter will be considered. Thus, the reflections of positivism and formalism in the legal-dogmatic formation of Law are analyzed, with applications to Brazilian Tax Law, as well as the role of the legal scholar in this hermeneutic context. After the reflections reached by the research, it was concluded that, in addition to a dogmatic approach, it is possible to seek alternative interpretative approaches to improve current tax law (zetetic), through the resumption of the concepts of prudence and hermeneutic criticism as guiding elements in the training of jurists and tax experts.

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Jeferson Teodorovicz, Fundação Getúlio Vargas - FGV - Brasília.

Pós-Doutorado em Direito pela UNB. Doutorado em Direito Econômico e Financeiro pela USP. Mestrado em Direito Econômico e Socioambiental pela PUCPR. Especialização em Gestão Contábil e Tributária (MBA) pela UFPR. Bacharelado em Direito pela PUCPR.  Professor Doutor da Escola de Políticas Públicas e Governo da Fundação Getúlio Vargas - FGV EPPG - Brasília. E-mail: jeferson.teodorovicz@fgv.br

Fredy José Gomes de Albuquerque, Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR)

Conselheiro do Conselho Administrativo de Recursos Fiscais (CARF). Mestrando em Direito Constitucional e Especialista em Direito e Processo Tributários pela Universidade de Fortaleza (UNIFOR). Master of Business Administration (MBA) em Gestão de Tributos pela TREVISAN. Membro Titular da Academia Cearense de Letras Jurídicas, do Instituto Cearense de Estudos Tributários (ICET) e da International Association of Tax Judges (IATJ). Advogado licenciado. E-mail: fredymobile@gmail.com

Published

2026-03-21

How to Cite

Teodorovicz, J., & José Gomes de Albuquerque, F. (2026). Zetetic Reflections and Legal Science: the rescue of prudence and hermeneutic criticism in Tax Law. REVISTA QUAESTIO IURIS, 18(3), 420–462. https://doi.org/10.12957/rqi.2025.81339

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