Review of The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality by Joseph Raz
Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
7-1982
ISSN
1558-1470
Publisher
Duke University Press
Language
en-US
Abstract
The title of this books marks out a subject both fitting and timely for a confessed legal positivist to explore. Positivists differ on what law is and whether morality is rationally respectable, but they agree that there is (as H.L.A. Hart has put it) "no necessary connection" between law and morals. Though it seems a platitude to many, this doctrine remains for critics a focus of attack, including the important recent one launched by Ronald Dworkin. It is a central theme of Raz's book.
Recommended Citation
David B. Lyons,
Review of The Authority of Law: Essays on Law and Morality by Joseph Raz
,
in
91
The Philosophical Review
461
(1982).
Available at:
https://doi.org/10.2307/2184700
