You're listening to the partially examined life, a podcast by some guys who are at one point

said undoing philosophy for a living but then thought better of it.

Our question for episode 303 is something like what is the relationship between law and

morality?

Or perhaps a flaw isn't found out in morality, what is it founded on?

We read H.L.A. Hearts as a positivism and the separation of law and morals in 1958.

In chapters 5 and 6 from his 1961 book The Concept of Law, for more information please

visit partiallyexaminedlife.com.

This is Mark Linton-Mirror obeying most of the rules most of the time in Madison, Wisconsin.

This is Seth Baskin pondering the rules of recognition in Austin, Texas.

This is Wes Owen habitually commanding but not habitually obeyed in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

This is Dylan Casey grasping nettles in Madison, Wisconsin.

I don't remember the nettles part from the nettles of the two evils.

Alright, so we wanted to read some philosophy of law after doing that abortion thing last

time.

Seth had raised this when we did critical race theory last year and for whatever reason

we didn't do it then, but it seemed about damn time and looking at the online syllabi

Herbert Lionel Adolphus Heart for 1907 died 1992.

Apparently that is who everybody reads that there are precedents.

This is Guy John Austin we read about who is a utilitarian Jeremy Bentham before him,

the much more well-known utilitarian but those guys were almost like a hundred years

plus before heart and yet heart is like the next big milestone to those guys.

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