| 单词 | natural law |
| 释义 | natural law natural law a higher law against which human laws can be mea- sured. Articulated by Aristotle and developed by Cicero, the idea of natural law is an old one. St Thomas Aquinas adapted the doctrine to Christianity, thus scriptures could provide content to the natural law. Grotius and Hobbes offered a secular view, which had the nat- ural reason of man as the source of the natural law. The focus was on right reason. Modern HARTIAN JURISPRUDENCE theory allows a mini- mum content to natural law based on the notion of survival and lim- ited resources. The Natural Law Party, which contested many hun- dreds of seats in the 1992 UK general election, had nothing to do with jurisprudence but was concerned with transcendental medita- tion. See POSITIVISM. |
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