The Morality of Law [antikvár]

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITIONIn this new editioaof The Morality of Law the first four chapters have been reprinted from the type as it was originally set, with only a minor correction or two. The only change of substance consists, therefore, in the addition of a fifth and final chapter entitled "A Reply to Critics."The fact that the first four chapters remain virtually unchanged does not imply complete satisfaction with either the form or the substance of die presentation achieved in them. It means simply that I have not proceeded far enough in my rethinking of the problems involved to undertake any substantial reformulation of the views I first expressed in lectures delivered in 1963. It means also that basically I stand by the positions taken in those lectures.I hope that the new fifth chapter will not be viewed simply as an exercise in polemics. For many decades legal philosophy in the English-speaking world has been largely dominated by the tradition of Austin, Gray, Holmes, and Kelsen. The central place their general view of law has occupied does not mean that it has ever been received with entire satisfaction; even its adherents have