natural law
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It was the foundation of the riches of Christian theology—of Augustine and Aquinas and the whole tradition of natural law.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
Mainstream economists may want you to believe all this is driven by Darwinian forces that follow some natural law, simplified as “the cost of doing business,” or even by Adam Smith’s invisible hand.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
This is a suppression of the natural law.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2024
Still, if any natural law applies to California, it is that what comes down will eventually go up.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
By a similar process in German, the rarer term, Naturgesetz, comes to mean primarily law of nature, while the commoner term, Naturrecht, continues to mean natural law.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
