Augustine was not a legal positivist, which is to say, he knew that human laws and customs could not be ultimate. If they are out of accord with a higher law (viz. natural law or divine law), they are not truly binding because not truly just. The opposite of this position, of course, is the…
February 3, 2017 at 9:31 AM
which is just the point about whether we are bound by one set or laws, the other or none at all.