NAIJA CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION John Finnis’ Natural Law and Natural Rights, first published in 1980, has sparked a debate that has lasted for nearly a quarter of a century. Finnis, a professor of jurisprudence at Oxford, has managed to revivify the discussion on natural law with what is being called a new natural law theory.

1.0 INTRODUCTION One important refrain that underlines Hart’s legal theory theory is his contention that rule rather than command theory, is the key to the science of jurisprudence. The command theory identified only one form of rule, namely the primary rules of obligation, which are insufficient to engineer the transition from a pre-legal society to a legal society.

1.0 INTRODUCTION Reading through his work, ‘Language, Truth and Logic’ Ayer represented in full the views of logical positivism. Although Ayer's views changed considerably after the 1930s, becoming more moderate and increasingly subtle, he remained loyal to empiricism, convinced that all knowledge of the world derives from sense experience and that nothing in experience justifies a belief in God or in any other extravagant metaphysical entity.

1.0 INTRODUCTION At the mention of the word “semantic”, our mind tends to focus on the philosophy of language. Although “semantics” is a concept in philosophy of language but it has a connotative relationship with the theory of mind, since language is a faculty of the mind.