This theory is applied to positivist theory when looking atevolutionand why some traits survive and some don’t (Bohm & Vogel, 2011). This perspective offers insight to why some less evolved humans still possess traits and qualities that are considered unsavory in today’s society. The flaw in...
Kyron Huigens asserts that such a republican theory of the criminal law stressing judgment and the good is plausible and necessary, both to explain the defenses and to describe the broader principles of blame and punishment in criminal justice. Huigens locates the elements of his theory in ...
The place of legitimacy in legal theory Part III suggests that although the policy-oriented and positivist conceptions of law are incompatible in this regard, this is not a meaningful conceptual disagreement because the disagreement arises from commitments that are anterior to conceptualizing law. Making...
Especially in the latter half of the 19th century, positivism had a considerable influence on the natural sciences and on the social sciences, including sociology, law, political economy, historiography, and literary theory and criticism. At the end of the 19th century, positivism went through a ...