A Prequel to Hart’s ‘Postscript’ – the Missing Link in the Hart-Dworkin Debate Cover Image

Prequel do Hartowskiego Postscriptum – brakujące ogniwo w debacie Harta z Dworkinem
A Prequel to Hart’s ‘Postscript’ – the Missing Link in the Hart-Dworkin Debate

Author(s): Andrzej Grabowski
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Philosophy of Law, Philosophy of Law
Published by: Stowarzyszenie Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej – Sekcja Polska IVR
Keywords: Herbert L. A. Hart; Ronald Dworkin; legal positivism; Hart-Dworkin debate

Summary/Abstract: In his translator’s note to the H.L.A Hart’s paper New Challenge to Legal Positivism, Andrzej Grabowski describes the historical details of Hart’s Madrid lecture and the changes of the original Spanish text, introduced in the translation. He argues that Hart’s paper can be regarded as the prequel to the ‘Postscript’ from 1994, since the lecture deals with the criticism of Dworkin against the Hartian version of legal positivism and some important parts of them (from Section II) were in extenso included in the ‘Postscript’. The translator also emphasises the importance of Hart’s lecture as a text-source of information, which can be used in the contemporary debate on the inclusive legal positivism and for the critical reconstruction of Hart’s theoretical position.

  • Issue Year: 9/2014
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 21-25
  • Page Count: 5
  • Language: Polish