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Title:
THE SUBSISTENCE OF MORALITY IN LAW: A SYNOPSIS OF H. L. A HART'S CONCEPTION OF THE LAW

Authors:
Uchenna Nympha Nkama

Volume:2 Issue: 12

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Uchenna Nympha Nkama
Philosophy Department, University Of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

MLA 8
Nkama, Uchenna Nympha. "THE SUBSISTENCE OF MORALITY IN LAW: A SYNOPSIS OF H. L. A HART'S CONCEPTION OF THE LAW." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 2, no. 12, Dec. 2018, pp. 615-622, ijah.org/more2018.php?id=40. Accessed Dec. 2018.
APA
Nkama, U. (2018, December). THE SUBSISTENCE OF MORALITY IN LAW: A SYNOPSIS OF H. L. A HART'S CONCEPTION OF THE LAW. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 2(12), 615-622. Retrieved from ijah.org/more2018.php?id=40
Chicago
Nkama, Uchenna Nympha. "THE SUBSISTENCE OF MORALITY IN LAW: A SYNOPSIS OF H. L. A HART'S CONCEPTION OF THE LAW." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 2, no. 12 (December 2018), 615-622. Accessed December, 2018. ijah.org/more2018.php?id=40.

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Keywords:
law, morality, jurisprudence, legal positivism, judicial discretion

Abstract:
Whether natural or positive, every law has an author with certain demands of morality. Thus, this paper discusses the subsistence of morality in law, a synopsis of H. L. Hart's conception of the law. According to Hart, there is no logical interconnectivity between law and morals, and that law is not simply a command backed by threat. Instead, Hart hinged his conception of the law on a system of rules. In view of this standpoint, the issues raised by Hart's conception of law include what is morality, what is law, what is Hart's minimum content of natural law and judicial discretion, among others. The aim is to reveal the problem in Harts legal positivism that is scarcely explored by other scholars. The work contributes to knowledge by submitting that one cannot help but queue into the notion that morality cannot be eschewed from the law.

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