Abstract:The traditional analytical jurisprudence mainly involved in two basic questions:First,What is the nature of law?This question can be seen as being actually two questions in one,that is:what is the law...The traditional analytical jurisprudence mainly involved in two basic questions:First,What is the nature of law?This question can be seen as being actually two questions in one,that is:what is the law,or what constitutes a good law.Second,there is a relationship between law and morality.Hence,a perennial question of jurisprudence has been whether there is a relationship between law and morality.Those who believe that there is no such relationship are known aslegal positivists,while those who hold that such relationship exists are usually tagged with the labelnatural lawyers.Bynatural lawin legal theory,I understand one to mean the claims that:(1)there are objective moral truths;and(2)those moral truths are at least partly constitutive of the truth conditions for propositions of law.I have called the first claim the metaethical thesis of natural law and the second claim the relational thesis of natural law.In this essay I am concerned solely with the relational thesis.Read More
Publication Year: 2007
Publication Date: 2007-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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