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Hugo Grotius, the founder of a purely rationalistic system of pure law, argued that law arises from each a social impulse—as Aristotle had indicated—and cause. Immanuel Kant believed a moral crucial requires laws “be chosen as though they want to hold as common laws of nature”. Jeremy Bentham and his student Austin, following David Hume, believed that this conflated the “is” and what “ought to be” drawback. Bentham and Austin argued for law’s positivism; that real law is completely separate from “morality”. Kant was additionally criticised by Friedrich Nietzsche, who rejected the precept of equality, and believed that law emanates from the desire to power, and cannot be labeled as “ethical” or “immoral”. We acknowledge and respect the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on whose traditional territory the university stands, and the Songhees, Esquimalt and WSÁNEĆ peoples whose historic relationships with the land proceed to this present day.

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