TY - BOOK AU - Murphy,James Bernard TI - The philosophy of positive law: foundations of jurisprudence SN - 9780300138016 AV - K331 .M87 2005 U1 - 340.112 23 PY - 2005/// CY - New Haven, Conn., London PB - Yale University Press KW - Legal positivism KW - Law KW - ukslc KW - Jurisprudence & general issues KW - thema KW - Methods, theory & philosophy of law N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - James Bernard Murphy uncovers a fundamental continuity among four legal philosophers: Plato, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Hobbes and John Austin. He argues that, in their theories of positive law, they represent successive chapters in a single story UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300107883.001.0001 ER -