Early modern conceptions of "natural law"
This article traces the shifts in meaning of the metaphor of “natural law” in modern thought from its pre-modern meaning as a divine standard for human behaviour accessible to reason. Descartes expanded this meaning to include the regularity of mechanical bodies by posing an absolute law system for...
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Language: | English |
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University of the Free State
2001-06-01
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Series: | Acta Academica |
Online Access: | http://196.255.246.28/index.php/aa/article/view/638 |
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