Austin: The Province Of Jurisprudence Determined

CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT JOHN AUSTIN The province of jurisprudence determined CAMBRIDGE TEXTS IN THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT Series editors RAYMOND GEUSS Reader in Philosophy, University of Cambridge QUENTIN SKINNER Regius Professor of Modern History in the University of Cambridge Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought is now firmly established as the major student textbook series in political theory. It aims to make available to students all the most important texts in the history of western political thought, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth century. All the familiar classic texts will be included, but the series seeks at the same time to enlarge the conventional canon by incorporating an extensive range of less well-known works, many of them never before available in a modern English edition. Wherever possible, texts are published in complete and unabridged form, and translations are specially commissioned for the series. Each volume contains a critical introduction together with chronologies, biographical sketches, a guide to further reading and any necessary glossaries and textual apparatus. When completed the series will aim to offer an outline of the entire evolution of western political thought. For a list of titles published in the series, please see end of book JOHN AUSTIN The province of jurisprudence determined EDITED BY WILFRID E. RUMBLE Vassar College CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, Sao Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 8RU, UK Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521442442 © in the introduction and editorial matter Cambridge University Press 1995 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 1995 Reprinted 2001 A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Rumble, Wilfrid E. Austin: the province of jurisprudence determined / edited by Wilfrid E. Rumble, p. cm. - (Cambridge texts in the history of political thought) Includes index. ISBN 0 521 44244 3 (hdbk.). - ISBN 0 521 44756 9 (pbk.) 1. Jurispudence. 2. Austin, John, 1790-1859. I. Series. K230.A862R858 1995 340M-dc20 94-20447 CIP ISBN 978-0-521-44244-2 hardback ISBN 978-0-521-44756-0 paperback Transferred to digital printing 2007 Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Note on the text Chronology of John Austin's life Selected bibliography Biographical notes page vi vii xxv xxviii xxx xxxv The Province of Jurisprudence Determined i Abstract of Lectures Analysis of Lectures Lecture I. Lecture II. Lecture III. Lecture IV. Lecture V. Lecture VI. 3 10 18 38 58 77 106 164 Index 294 Acknowledgements Although the preparation of this edition was a labour of love, it would not have been possible wi