HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - John Vanbrugh, Reductionism, Gustav Radbruch
22 Oct 2012
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Grasp the over all theme so far: What they said, why they believed what they did about law, and what they wanted to achieve. Have some grasp of hart"s theory of adjudication: what do judges do when they decide cases, apply the theory of adjudication to whiteley and chappelle. The reasons of the case and why that information is significant. A doctrine that was developed by the early utilitarians in the late 18th-19th century of english by the two founding fathers jeremy bentham and john. Austin: these founding fathers were social reformers: scholars who wanted to effect socio-economical and political changes based on their utilitarian philosophy. Indexing pleasure over pain for the greater good. If you want to change society, change the law: if you consider law as a man-made doctrine, then it would be easier to change. Then it could incarnate whatever values society wanted it to incarnate. This new legal theory with mockery repudiated the old theory.
