He paints a daunting picture but what stands out is his optimism, or what he prefers to call positivism. "Optimism is like being a spectator at a football match, hoping your team somehow wins," he ...

Auguste Comte’s most important accomplishment was developing positivism, a philosophical framework that tried to elevate empirical science to the status of the highest knowledge. According to ...

[In 1957, Professor H.L.A. Hart of Oxford University gave a lecture at Harvard, subsequently published as "Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals, 71 Harv. J. Rev. 593 (1958). In this talk, ...

1. Legal Positivism Defined: Legal positivism asserts that the existence and content of law depend on social facts, not on its merits or alignment with ideals like justice or democracy.