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History And The Characterization Of Law: Just War And Other Legal Things In The Age Of Positivism, John Lunstroth
History And The Characterization Of Law: Just War And Other Legal Things In The Age Of Positivism, John Lunstroth
John Lunstroth
If what is important in our affairs is that we know the truth, then are there present things about which we must know the past in order to know the truth? I argue there are, and that one category of those things is legal things, the law. By law I mean political theory, justice, right, rights, positive law and ethics; and all of the various ways those things have been understood by jurists. The way we reason about the law radically changed in the Enlightenment. By the end of the 18th century science and positivism as general methods of reason …