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law legal_philosophy

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Hidden behind Hegelian abstractions were more practical reasons for a changing jurisprudence .

The displacement ( at_least to a considerable extent ) of the ethical jurisprudence of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries by positivism reshaped both international_law theory and doctrine .

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law

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"civilization presupposes respect for the law" "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

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