LEADER 03377nam 2200637Ia 450 001 9910821183203321 005 20240418001912.0 010 $a1-281-73542-6 010 $a9786611735425 010 $a0-300-13801-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300138016 035 $a(CKB)1000000000477780 035 $a(StDuBDS)BDZ0022171523 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000221067 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11190864 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000221067 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10157820 035 $a(PQKB)10985915 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000158270 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3420266 035 $a(DE-B1597)485613 035 $a(OCoLC)1024003014 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300138016 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3420266 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10190723 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL173542 035 $a(OCoLC)923591284 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000477780 100 $a20041229d2005 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe philosophy of positive law $efoundations of jurisprudence /$fJames Bernard Murphy 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew Haven $cYale University Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource (xiii, 240 p.)) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-300-10788-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tAcknowledgments --$tAbbreviations --$tIntroduction: Natural, Customary, and Positive Law --$t1. Positive Language and Positive Law in Plato's --$t2. Law's Positivity in the Natural Law Jurisprudence of Thomas Aquinas --$t3. Positive Language and Positive Law in Thomas Hobbes --$t4. Positive Law in the Analytical Positivism of John Austin --$tConclusion: The Rise and Fall of Positive Law --$tIndex 330 $aIn this first book-length study of positive law, James Bernard Murphy rewrites central chapters in the history of jurisprudence by uncovering a fundamental continuity among four great legal philosophers: Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes, and John Austin. In their theories of positive law, Murphy argues, these thinkers represent successive chapters in a single fascinating story. That story revolves around a fundamental ambiguity: is law positive because it is deliberately imposed (as opposed to customary law) or because it lacks moral necessity (as opposed to natural law)? These two senses of positive law are not coextensive yet the discourse of positive law oscillates unstably between them. What, then, is the relation between being deliberately imposed and lacking moral necessity? Murphy demonstrates how the discourse of positive law incorporates both normative and descriptive dimensions of law, and he discusses the relation of positive law not only to jurisprudence but also to the philosophy of language, ethics, theories of social order, and biblical law. 606 $aLegal positivism 606 $aLaw$xPhilosophy 615 0$aLegal positivism. 615 0$aLaw$xPhilosophy. 676 $a340/.112 700 $aMurphy$b James Bernard$f1958-$01223357 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821183203321 996 $aThe philosophy of positive law$94003792 997 $aUNINA