legal positivism
11positivism — The philosophy of Comte, holding that the highest or only form of knowledge is the description of sensory phenomena. Comte held that there were three stages of human belief: the theological, the metaphysical, and finally the positive, so called… …
12Positivism — philosophical position that the only authentic knowledge is scientific knowledge. It is an approach to the philosophy of science, deriving from Enlightenment thinkers like Pierre Simon Laplace (and many others). See also logical positivism. •… …
13Legal interpretivism — in epistemology, the view that all knowledge is a matter of interpretation. • Legal interpretivism school of thought in the philosophy of law, in which law is not considered to be a set of data or physical facts, but what lawyers aim to construct …
14positivism — n. The belief that laws exist to run society and are valid because they are enacted by humans, and ideals or worries about justice should not limit their application. The Essential Law Dictionary. Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc …
15List of country legal systems — Legal systems of the world   Civil law …
16Logical positivism — (also known as logical empiricism, scientific philosophy, and neo positivism) is a philosophy that combines empiricism the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge with a version of rationalism incorporating mathematical… …
17John Austin (legal philosopher) — John Austin (1790 1859) was a noted British jurist and published extensively concerning the philosophy of law and jurisprudence.Austin served with the British Army in Sicily and Malta, but sold his officer s commission to study law. He became a… …
18Interpretivism (legal) — The word also covers continental legal hermeneutics and authors such as Helmut Coing and Emilio Betti. Legal hermeneutics can be seen as a branch of philosophical hermeneutics, whose main authors in the 20th century are Heidegger and Gadamer,… …
19Rational-legal authority — (also known as rational authority, legal authority, rational domination, legal domination, or bureaucratic authority) is a form of leadership in which the authority of an organization or a ruling regime is largely tied to legal rationality, legal …
20Comte and positivism — Robert Brown COMTE’S AIMS The chief aim of all of Auguste Comte’s publications, and the constant mission of his entire working life, was the improvement of human character through the perfecting of human society. He was convinced that the… …
