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John Austin (3 March 1790 – 1 December 1859) was an English legal theorist who posthumously influenced British and American law with an analytical approach to jurisprudence and a theory of legal positivism.
Feb 24, 2001 · John Austin. First published Sat Feb 24, 2001; substantive revision Fri Jan 14, 2022. John Austin is considered by many to be the creator of the school of analytical jurisprudence, as well as, more specifically, the approach to law known as “legal positivism.”
John Austin was an English jurist whose writings, especially The Province of Jurisprudence Determined (1832), advocated a definition of law as a species of command and sought to distinguish positive law from morality. He had little influence during his lifetime outside the circle of Utilitarian.
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Summary of John Austin’s Legal Positivism: John Austin (1790-1859) was a nineteenth century British legal philosopher who formulated the first systematic alternative to both natural law theories of law and utilitarian approaches to law.
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Jan 3, 2003 · First published Fri Jan 3, 2003; substantive revision Tue Dec 17, 2019. Legal positivism is the thesis that the existence and content of law depends on social facts and not on its merits. The English jurist John Austin (1790–1859) formulated it thus: The existence of law is one thing; its merit and demerit another.
John Austin command theory obedience morality legal reasoning. Type. Chapter. Information. The Cambridge Companion to Legal Positivism , pp. 225 - 247. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108636377.010. Publisher: Cambridge University Press. Print publication year: 2021. Access options.
John Langshaw Austin, born on March 26th 1911 in Lancaster, England. He was trained as a classicist at Balliol College Oxford. He first came to philosophy by studying Aristotle, who deeply influenced his own philosophical method. He also worked on the philosophy of Leibniz and translated Frege’s Grundlagen.
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