An article from Stanford.edu explores the philosophical inquiry into the nature of law, focusing on two main aspects: the conditions of legal validity and the normativity of law. General jurisprudence aims to discern the universal characteristics of law, contrasting legal positivism, which asserts that legal validity is based on social facts, with natural law theory, which insists on the moral content of norms for legal validity. Key examples include the expansion of legal positivism by scholars like Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, and the critique of this view by figures like Ronald Dworkin, who argues that legal reasoning inherently involves moral considerations. Additionally, contemporary debates in legal philosophy have shifted towards understanding law as an artifact and applying new metaphysical and linguistic frameworks to legal theory. #LetsBeCarefulOutThere #flcc270
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