LAWS 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Agnosticism, Labour Power, Class Conflict
23 Mar 2016
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We will explore liberal legal theory and its background. Understand dif ideologies of the ppl you are dealing w/ The general proposiion of devlin jurisprudence has shited from naturalism, through posiivism and realism to. A denaturalisaion process whereby law is no longer seen as transcendental, somehow out there and autonomous of human acivity. Sill strong naturalising tendencies charter and other docs that show the inluence of naturalism on mod day law (all humans are created equal: ex: An increasing recogniion that law is a human construct; an arifact of human agency, coningent, socially and historically located, and therefore capable of renovaion. In its pagan raionalisic forms (greek and roman) Or chrisian divinic forms (st. augusine and aquinas) Or its secularized, social contractarian and rights based forms (hobbes and locke) Imp sev key themes unite these otherwise v diverse jurists. Natural law claims to be universal, immutable, eternal, objecive, and beyond paricularised poliical or historical context.
