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legal positivism to 1970 Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Law
From the late eighteenth to the mid‐nineteenth centuries, the utilitarian philosophers Jeremy Bentham and John Austin developed an influential theory
legal positivism since 1970 Reference library
The New Oxford Companion to Law
Two disputes about the relation between law and morality have dominated recent discussion of positivism, both deriving from issues raised
legal positivism Reference library
John Finnis
The Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2 ed.)
intending to oppose natural law theory, denies any ‘necessary connexion between law and morality’. Central theses among a loose cluster: (1) law is definable and explainable without ...
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