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Philosophical concept

Natural law

Natural law grounds some norms in shared reason or nature rather than solely in a ruler’s decision.

Works
31
Passages
23,610
Thinkers
15
Traditions
10

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Natural law grounds some norms in shared reason or nature rather than solely in a ruler’s decision.

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 23,610 passages across 31 works, including Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual Documents, On Divination, On Duties. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

Lexical variants: loi naturelle, natural law, lex natur, nature et raison, nature and reason

Related traditions

Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  2. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  3. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  4. On the LawsCicero · 181 passages
  5. On the Nature of the GodsCicero · 0 passages
  6. Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
  7. The Analects of Confucius (Lúnyǔ)Confucius · 0 passages
  8. Relativity: The Special and General Theory, English TranslationAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  9. Sidelights on RelativityAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  10. The Born-Einstein Letters: Einstein’s LettersAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  11. The World As I See ItAlbert Einstein · 0 passages
  12. Letters from Elizabeth Carter to Elizabeth MontaguElizabeth Carter · 0 passages
  13. Second Treatise of GovernmentJohn Locke · 19 passages
  14. Collected Papers on Analytical PsychologyCarl Gustav Jung · 0 passages
  15. MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
  16. The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 0 passages
  17. LawsPlato · 0 passages
  18. On the Happy LifeSeneca · 0 passages
  19. Socrates in Xenophon’s MemorabiliaXenophon · 0 passages
  20. Political Treatise, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza · 0 passages
  21. Theologico-Political Treatise, English ManifestationBaruch Spinoza · 0 passages
  22. Summa Contra GentilesThomas Aquinas · 0 passages
  23. Summa TheologiaeThomas Aquinas · 23,323 passages
  24. The Doré LecturesThomas Troward · 0 passages
  25. The Edinburgh Lectures on Mental ScienceThomas Troward · 0 passages
  26. The Law and the WordThomas Troward · 0 passages