Ep. 303: H.L.A. Hart on the Foundations of Law (Part Two) - a podcast by Mark Linsenmayer
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Continuing on "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals" (1958) and The Concept of Law (1961), ch. 5 and 6.
If law is not based on morality, then why obey the law? What makes a legal system exist at all, as opposed to a lawless state? Is saying something is legally required just a way of predicting that people will generally obey it?
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