Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part One) - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer

On "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals" (1958) and The Concept of Law (1961), ch. 5 and 6.

What's the relationship between law and morality? If law isn't founded on morality, what is it founded on? Hart's legal positivism makes a sharp distinction between law as a human invention and morality.

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