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The views of both Hart and Fuller will be interpreted and the differences between the two essays, analysed. Hart talks of the third criticism of law and morals. In 'Positivism and the Separation of Law and Morals1,' Hart focuses particularly on the appeal of one man, a Gustav Radbruch, who had, previous to the Nazi regime, shared in the positivist way of thinking, namely the belief that law and morality were two separate entities, to be considered independent of one another, but who now shared in the natural law school of thinking. Positive law, in the sense of the law of the state, is something ascertainable and valid without regard to subjective considerations.2 However, Radbruch then appealed to other people to discard this doctrine. In his appeal, Radbruch confronted the ideas which two classic positivists, Bentham and Austin 'preached,' when they urged the separation of law as it...

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