be the monarch’s real will that is identical to the fact that maintains the power of the law. The preservation of such an explanation of the relationship between will and power is actually an idea based upon two tacit assumptions: first, that the monarch has absolute knowledge of the law of the land; and second, that the monarch condones and accepts each and every existing and applied rule of law. It is thus in order to ask: Are these two assumptions plausible? In all probability they cannot be.The willtheory’s lack of correspondence to facts and lack of realism is obvious.This is because in order for the theory to be maintained in the face of facts, the will-theorists must resort to the use of fictions and fictive facts as verifying instances to the theory, therefore, irrespective of the fact that the monarch’s will can neither constitute nor uphold the law, the will-theorists nevertheless claim that their explanation of the binding power of law is valid. Because: What Hägerström thus illustrates is the metaphysical fundamentals of the will-theory, namely its illusory concepts, contradictions, fictions, and lack of realism. Hägerström also applies the same objections to the will-theory’s explanation and description of the mutual will of parliament as the force maintaining and upholding the law in a parliamentary state. Here the fiction is even more palpable than in the explanation of law in monarchies, especially since a parliament is an assembly of assorted individuals whose different wills must be a ca l l f o r s c i e n t i f i c p u r i t y 381 1. 2 . 2 the wi ll of parl iament in a parl iamentary state “Aber, sagt man, hier ist nicht die Frage von den konkreten Personen, die Monarchen sind, sondern von dem Monarchen in abstracto, als einer ideeller Person, die kontinuierlich in den Personen der einzelnen Monarchen wiederkehrt. Die Fiktion ist offenbar. Es sind nicht die einzelnen Katzen, welche Mäuse fangen, sondern der Begriff der Katze, welcher sich bei allen Katzen findet!”17 17 Hägerström, Obligationsbegriff 1, p. 13.
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