Does Nature Make Laws? An Introduction to the Natural Law Tradition | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
The Thomistic Institute
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The Idea of a Law Prior to Man Made Law
Martin luther king junior did in fact explain in his letter from a birmingham jail that his civil disobedience was motivated by a sense of a higher law. And sophocles antigone is often taken to give early voice to the idea of a natural law, cited by aristotle and many thinkers since as a law according to nature. If it were not for such a law, before human law, we could not perceive that some laws are just, and that just laws ought to be obeyed. Nor could we judge between who has the authority to make an authentic law and who does. We measure not only individual man made laws, but also the very human authority by which such law is
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