二十世纪美国的法理学和法哲学可以说是从1880年前后O·W·霍姆斯的《普通法》一书的发表而启始的。在这本书中以及在其广为传诵的1897年发表的论文《法律之路》中,霍姆斯以各种不同的强调程度首次提出了四个主题,这些主题此后一直支配着美国的法理学和法哲学:(1)法律和道德的关系;(2)法律规则和法律概念的性质;(3)制定司法判决的性质;(4)法律与社会科学的关系。 The jurisprudence and jurisprudence of the United States in the twentieth century can be said to have started with the publication of O. Holmes’s Common Law before and after 1880. In this book and in his widely circulated essay “The Way of Law,” published in 1897, Holmes first proposed four themes for various degrees of emphasis, which have since dominated the American law (1) the relationship between law and morality; (2) the nature of legal rules and legal concepts; (3) the nature of judicial decisions; and (4) the relationship between law and social science.