The Threads of Natural Law Unravelling a Philosophical Tradition /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Contreras, Francisco José (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice ; 22
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Political science.; Law > Philosophy.; Law.; Anthropology.; Philosophy of Law.; Fundamentals of Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.

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 po...