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 ...

[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, ...

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 ...

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.

We develop new principles for the world out of the world’s own principles. We do not say to the world: Cease your struggles, they are foolish; we will give you the true slogan of struggle. We merely ...