LAWS 2105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Legal Positivism, Social Fact
6 Dec 2017
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Essay: there is an example of a response paper on essayjack. Sign up through nelson and use the course key provided by the teacher on culearn. In writing your essay: provide textual evidence of your claims. Legal positivism: law and morality are separate; they need not connect. Hart was a legal philosopher at oxford university responsible for approach to. Natural law: certain rights are inherent by virtue of human nature and can be understood universally through human reason. Historically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature to deduce binding rules of moral behavior. There is a necessary connection between law and morality. All hu(cid:373)a(cid:374) la(cid:449) is o(cid:374)ly (cid:448)alid if it is assisted (cid:449)ith god(cid:859)s (cid:449)ill or divine authority. Everyone has a different view on what morality means, and what laws are moral or immoral. Just because something is a law, it is not necessarily morale for everyone.
