
Threads of Natural Law
The notion of “natural law” has repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis. Stoic natural law, for example, emerged precisely when the Ancient World lost the Greek polis, which had been the point of reference for Plato''s and Aristotle''s political philosophy. In key moments such as this, natural law has enabled moral and legal dialogue between pe...
The notion of “natural law” has repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis. Stoic natural law, for example, emerged precisely when the Ancient World lost the Greek polis, which had been the point of reference for Plato''s and Aristotle''s political philosophy. In key moments such as this, natural law has enabled moral and legal dialogue between pe...