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BACK TO HART
BACK TO HART

Author(s): Brian Leiter
Subject(s): Philosophy of Law
Published by: Правни факултет Универзитета у Београду
Keywords: H.L.A. Hart; Gilbert Ryle; Internal point of view;Theoretical disagreement;Metaphysical grounding

Summary/Abstract: The essay addresses two different senses of important “problems” for contemporary legal philosophy. In the first case, the “problem” is having forgotten things we learned from H.L.A. Hart, and, partly as a result, encouraging pointless metaphysical inquiries in other directions that take us very far from questions about the nature of law and legal reasoning. In the second case, the “problem” is to attend more carefully to Hart’s views and his philosophical context to think about the problem of theoretical disagreement, and to understand the way in which later commentators have misunderstood his behaviorist (Rylean) analysis of “accepting a rule from an internal point of view.”

  • Issue Year: 69/2021
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 749-760
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English
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