2014-02-24
18 分钟This is philosophy bites with me, Nigel.
Warburton, and me, David Edmonds.
If you enjoy philosophy bites, please support us.
We're currently unfunded and all donations would be gratefully received.
For details, go to www.philosophybites.com.
Hla Hart, who died in 1992, had a complex identity, a jewish Englishman who felt himself to be homosexual, though he was married to a fellow academic, Jennifer, with whom he had four children.
More relevant to philosophy bites, he transformed the philosophy of law.
Here to discuss him is Nicola Lacey of the London School of Economics and author of an acclaimed biography of Hart.
Nicola Lacey, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Thank you.
The topic we're going to focus on is Hart and legal positivism.
That's Hla Hart or Herbert Hart, the legal philosopher.
I wonder if you could begin by just saying a little bit about who Herbert Hart was.
He's a really interesting man.
He's a very interesting man.
He was born in the early part of the 20th century in Yorkshire.
He came from a background where nobody in his family had been to university before.
He got a scholarship to Oxford, got a very starry degree, went off to the bar and practiced very successfully during the 1930s as a barrister.
And then during, like everybody else in his generation, his career was disrupted by the war.
He worked in Mi five.