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Article: Natural Law
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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NATURAL LAW
NATURAL LAW.
Natural law is a contribution to the perennial discussion of the nature of justice and morality; it is an attempt to root them in something beyond human convention and creation. The notion has had various meanings and contents
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no less than the word
nature
itself
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most of which can be traced back to Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225
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1274), Roman Stoicism, and ultimately, Aristotle (384
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322 b.c.e.). Constant to all its meanings is that natural law is coherent, suprahuman, objective moral order that contains the standards of what is good and just; and that it contains the standards by which human or positive law is to be judged from the ...
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