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Concerns of Morality in Legal Theory
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Concerns of Morality in Legal Theory

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''No more literature has been written on the concept of law than in any other field of knowledge.'' These words compose the first paragraph of Hart's most important opera, i.e. "The Concept of Law". In fact many legal theorists have filled the pages of philosophical and jurisprudential literature by trying to answer various questions such as what is law, how is law related to moral value, and what is the connection, if any, between law and morality. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries law was presented as a 'science of principles'. Many jurists have tried to explain law as an expression of more abstract principles which may reflect necessary truths about the world and most of all human nature. The disputes between natural law theory and legal positivism are disputes regarding a n evaluative conception of law over a non-evaluative conception; more precisely, it is a dispute regarding the methods for the selection of basic jurisprudential concepts. John Finnis, a Natural law theorist of the twentieth century, explains "how the development of modern jurisprudence suggests that a theorist cannot give a theoretical description and analysis of social facts, unless he also participates in the work of evaluation, of understanding what is really good for human persons, and what is required by practical reasonableness."

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Gruppo A.V. Italia S.R.L.
Date
23 July 2021
Pages
62
ISBN
9791280619068

''No more literature has been written on the concept of law than in any other field of knowledge.'' These words compose the first paragraph of Hart's most important opera, i.e. "The Concept of Law". In fact many legal theorists have filled the pages of philosophical and jurisprudential literature by trying to answer various questions such as what is law, how is law related to moral value, and what is the connection, if any, between law and morality. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries law was presented as a 'science of principles'. Many jurists have tried to explain law as an expression of more abstract principles which may reflect necessary truths about the world and most of all human nature. The disputes between natural law theory and legal positivism are disputes regarding a n evaluative conception of law over a non-evaluative conception; more precisely, it is a dispute regarding the methods for the selection of basic jurisprudential concepts. John Finnis, a Natural law theorist of the twentieth century, explains "how the development of modern jurisprudence suggests that a theorist cannot give a theoretical description and analysis of social facts, unless he also participates in the work of evaluation, of understanding what is really good for human persons, and what is required by practical reasonableness."

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Format
Paperback
Publisher
Gruppo A.V. Italia S.R.L.
Date
23 July 2021
Pages
62
ISBN
9791280619068