
The author justifies the thesis about the influence of the phenomenological method as depicted in The Apriori Foundations of the Civil Law (1913) by Adolf Reinach (Edmund Husserl’s brilliant disciple and phenomenologist of German origin) on the concept of social ontology presented in an article from 1921, entitled On the Social
Object and Fact, by Czesław Znamierowski. Znamierowski was a Polish representative of philosophical and sociological thought. The author indicates analogies as well
as major discrepancies between both philosophers’ assumptions. The attempt of Znamierowski to apply general assumptions of phenomenology to create social
ontology from scratch shows that it is, in the author’s opinion, possible to apply the phenomenological method to the philosophy of law.