Austin called international law “positive international morality”. According to. Austin law is the command of the sovereign
object of positive law ought to be an object of the positive morality. * . .
Another and final quotation shows Mr. Austin's mature and digested view of the matter: " Positive morality" he writes
Austin distinguishes divine law/the true morality from “positive morality” or the beliefs about what's right/wrong
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named commodiously 'positive morality.'" Early in his book The Province of Jurisprudence. Determined
separation between law and morality and that law should be about John Austin
Positive positivists such as Hart were of the opinion that the moral principles do exist in the universe but it is not required for the law to abide by them.
ity by Austin's work or "the era of legal positivism" which he "inaugurated Austin by establishing the distinction between positive law and morals