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Jurisprudence

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theoretical study of law, by philosophers and social scientists

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But Bentham's subject was Legislation, of which Jurisprudence is only the formal part: and at every page he seemed to open a clearer and broader conception of what human opinions and institutions ought to be, how they might be made what they ought to be, and how far removed from it they now are. When I laid down the last volume of the _Traité_, I had become a different being.
John Stuart Mill, Autobiography
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Accordingly, the supreme principle of jurisprudence is an analytical principle. On the contrary the principle of ethics goes beyond the notion of external freedom and, by general laws, connects further with it an end which it makes a duty. This principle, therefore, is synthetic.
Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics
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Ah! and the philosophy of jurisprudence! That is a science which, like all moral sciences, has not even been wrapped in swaddling-clothes yet.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Will to Power
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