The aim of a theory of law, then, would be to systematize these pre-theoretic judgments about the concept of law in order to provide an account of some substantive conception of law.
The assumption is that the intuitions one is disposed to have in virtue of possessing the concept of law will be fertile enough to constitute a particular substantive conception of what the law is and how it functions.
Nomos, ( Greek: "law," or "custom", ) plural Nomoi, in law, the concept of law in ancient Greek philosophy.
There are few words in Russian for the Western concept of "law," but there are legions of words for connections, helping people from one's neck of the woods.
And then, I think, he used the concept of law to help broaden and make more meaningful concepts like the superego and psychoanalysis".
But the court acted in the service not of a tyranny but of a totalitarian state — in accordance with a warped but clear concept of law.
In this context, it is helpful to recall that the limitation of power is an idea implicit in the concept of law itself.
Hart's "The Concept of Law" (1961) revived thought about the nature of legal rules and the ultimate grounds for legal obligation.
Although The Concept of Law is principally a work of legal philosophy, it contains some important discussions of topics in political and moral philosophy.
"Herbert went on to express considerable anxiety about this student's views for the arguments of 'The Concept of Law,' " she wrote.
The abstract concept of law is acknowledged, though not discussed, in the poems of Homer and Hesiod in the 8th 7th century bce.
