The article reflects upon the specification of the judgment “according to the law” as a just judgment according to both legal and moral criteria. The evolution of legal philosophy from the legalistic tenet that the just judgement by the judge ought to be grounded only in positive legal sources to the realization that such a judgement is impossible demands that the analytical theory of law, hermeneutic legal philosophy and natural law theory supplement each other in order to avoid nihilist irrationalism.