Legal Literacy - This article discusses progressive law initiated by legal maestro Prof. Satjipto Rahardjo. According to him, law is for humans, not humans for the law.

Satjipto Rahardjo's Legal Philosophy: Law for Human Welfare

In essence, the philosophy of law is "law for humans, not humans for the law." This philosophy shows that law has the task of serving society, not the other way around. Therefore, to measure the quality of a law, we can look at its ability to serve human welfare.

If we look at Prof. Satjipto Rahardjo's thinking above, we understand that this thinking has the same context as the utilitarianism stream initiated by Jeremy Bentham, which states that the purpose of law is to achieve "the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people."

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Prof. Satjipto Rahardjo's holistic consistency of thought towards law leads him to think beyond positivistic thinking towards law while trying to include law in the realm of social sciences, one of which is sociology.

Linking other sciences as auxiliary sciences in law is a very progressive step. With other social sciences as auxiliary sciences, we will be able to obtain the scientific quality of law.

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