It has more than once been observed that funeral orations for the natural law have always been premature. The implication that the concept has a continuing vitality, giving the lie to the prophets of its doom, is justification for yet another book on a subject, now as much as ever in the two and a half millenia of its history a matter of controversy. The history of the natural law has often been written -or at least the history of the concept in the Western European Greco 2 Roman tradition. This study does not claim to be a history, although its method is primarily historical and its...
It has more than once been observed that funeral orations for the natural law have always been premature. The implication that the concept has a con...