PHIL 3040 Lecture 5: Hart

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 3040
• Professor: Peter Eardley

Document Summary

Positivism and the separation of law and morals hart is a positivist but he is also a. 2 targets: natural law tradition, joh(cid:374) austi(cid:374)"s (cid:271)(cid:396)a(cid:374)d of legal positi(cid:448)is(cid:373) (cid:894)law is a command) Utilitarianism: ethical theory which states that the best action is the one that maximizes utility. Section 4 = the problem of (cid:862)hyper-e(cid:448)il(cid:863) la(cid:449)s i. e. holocaust. Section 5 = any valid legal system is going to have to have some minimal moral content. October 17, 2017 (1) moral subjectivism: all moral judgements are relative to the individual (i. e. subjective) (2) moral relativism: values or moral judgements are relative to ones culture or society. Liberal democracy a form of political organization in which free people rule. C(cid:396)i(cid:373)e (cid:396)ate (cid:449)ould go (cid:449)ay do(cid:449)(cid:374) if this (cid:449)e(cid:396)e(cid:374)"t the (cid:272)ase (cid:894)(cid:373)o(cid:396)e (cid:396)est(cid:396)i(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s, (cid:272)u(cid:396)fe(cid:449)s, st(cid:396)ict punishments = crime rate down) (but people want freedom and we are willing to make this trade off)