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Natural Law Philosophers gathers the jurists and philosophers associated with the natural law tradition, the view that law draws its authority, in whole or in part, from a higher moral order accessible to human reason rather than from human enactment alone. Its members span the classical and Enlightenment-era natural law and natural rights philosophers through the twentieth century revival of natural law theory that followed the Second World War's reckoning with purely positivist legal systems.

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Defining Characteristic
Natural law philosophers who hold that inherent laws derived from nature and universal moral principles are discoverable through reason, a tradition traced to Aristotle, Cicero and the Stoics. 1
Formation Year
400 BCE 1
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  • Natural law, lead section, ancient Greek and Roman origins sentence
    the concept of natural law was documented in ancient Greek philosophy, including Aristotle, and was mentioned in ancient Roman philosophy by Cicero
  • Natural law, lead section, Aristotle era sentence
    the concept of natural law was documented in ancient Greek philosophy, including Aristotle
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