Legal positivism: Legal positivism holds that the law is a set of social rules that are created and enforced by human beings, and that its validity does not depend on its morality or justice. See also Law, Laws, Rights, Jurisdiction, State, Society._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. |