LSE Research: The Moral Structure of Legal Systems, pt. 1

After the fall of the Nazis, the connections between law (which calibrates obedience against rule-adherence) and morality (which calibrates obedience against a normative good) acquired a renewed importance: the Nazis claimed to be operating under a legal system that differed in content but not in kind.

Some legal theorists agreed: the systemic integrity of a legal code said nothing about its content -- the law was simply whatever was posited by lawgivers. They were known as "positivists" for this reason. Meanwhile, those who took the so-called "natural law" position insisted that morality was not separable from the law in this fashion.

It was into this climate that the debate between positivist H L A Hart and natural lawyer Lon Fuller emerged. More than a half-century later, Dr Rundle explains why their debate has never really gone away.

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[kobidobidog]

@itsme127 Human law stretches on,and on in a confusing oppressing web that entraps humans trying to condemn them. Jesus faced the same thing. Humans followed Jesus with the intent to use what they thought was their wisdom to condemn. Humans do that today in whatever way they can against the zoo, Pedo, and whoever being ungodly. God gives mercy, love,kindness not giving evil for evil. Legal system is diametrically the opposite to how the Lord God is.Those that embrace mans law kills his soul.

[Joce4xo]

this video is incredibly helpful! i would LOVE to have her as a professor! 

[katheryncruz24]

Great video. Thanks!