Legal epistemology

The legal epistemology enters into the reflection on the knowledge of the law, it tries to elucidate if this knowledge is possible, what form or structure it must have, what are its ways of presenting itself in societies, etc. Knowledge has been defined as the relationship that man establishes with reality to produce the cognitive object in the soul (Democritus, 460-370 BC Larroyo, 1972 and Gonzales de Ibarra Juan de Dios 1997)

An epistemology is a method of knowing, it is a method of knowing; if we want to systematize knowledge about the law, we must systematize the method of obtaining it; This issue is important because throughout history it has marked the different models of knowledge about law, in other words, law has had different epistemologies throughout history, the most important of which has been natural law (natural law).) and iuspositivism (positive law). Natural law is the first epistemological model and has its development from the Greeks to the birth of mechanism at the end of the XVII century or beginning of the 19th century, positive law follows the scientific epistemological model. The first model is a metaphysical model and therefore pays a lot of attention to the ideal law, while the second is a physical model and places a lot of emphasis on the measurement and valuation of the facts related to the law.