In defense of legal positivism law without trimmings
This book is an uncompromising defense of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets. The book concludes...
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Oxford,New York
Oxford University Press
1999
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| Institutions: | Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Trà Vinh |
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| Summary: | This book is an uncompromising defense of legal positivism that insists on the separability of law and morality. After distinguishing among three facets of morality, Kramer explores a variety of ways in which law has been perceived as integrally connected to each of those facets. The book concludes with a detailed discussion of the obligation to obey the law--a discussion that highlights the strengths of legal positivism in the domain of political philosophy as much as in the domain of jurisprudence |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 313 p. 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 019926483X 9780199264834 |