is one of the less
influential chapters in that enormously influential work. And perhaps because it is principallya contribution to moral philosophy embedded in a jurisprudential treatise, it has not attractedcritical attention remotely comparable in quantity and quality to that received by certain otherchapters.
2
However, in addressing the nature of morality and of its key constituent elements
–
primarily the idea of justice
–
it arguably ventures out onto some of the deepest philosophicalwaters traversed by
The Concept of Law
.