Technically, It’s the Formal Natural Law, Not Just Natural Law. 😉 Catching up o

Technically, It’s the Formal Natural Law, Not Just Natural Law. 😉

Catching up on the last few decades of work on Natural Law and understanding that we must disambiguate my work from the historical trajectory.

Why does it matter?:
Because natural law states that all just and legitimate law evolved from the laws of nature, and morality is among the laws of nature. The problem of the past is they lacked a formal basis for it – at least, untili the time of Blackstone. Further it seems that most authors of the past failed to grasp that the common law, and concurrent legislation limited by natural law are empirical methods of determining what is in fact both moral and legitimate behavior and law.

So natural law means the unification of the laws of the universe, the empirical method to discover them, and the discovery of and consistency of moral rules using them, and the constraint on both the people and the state by the use of them. In other words, natural law sought to unify the laws of the universe (physics), with the laws of human behavior (cognitive science, psychology, sociology) with the facilitation of human behavior (econcomics law and politics).

And by this unification we falsify the human tendency to make stuff up that assists them in preying upon others.

Historical Sequence:
Pagan European Philosophy(Plato and Aristotle) -> Christianity (Aquinas) -> {Lock/ Smith/ Hume/ Blackstone/ Founders} -> to the revolt against natural law {Bentham, Austin, Rez, Kelsen, Hart, Dworkin} -> To the attempt to restore it and the founder’s transactionalism {Scalia, et al} -> to myself who has completed the formalilzation that scalia began.

Formalization:
So, in this sense, I’ve been using the term Natural Law in this tradition of the unification of the sciences. Or what I call P-Law or the P-Method.

But the correct, technical description would be:
The Formal Operational Algorithmic Natural Law of Cooperation. Or Formal Natural Law for short. 😉

Because the technical name for the laws of logic are The Formal Laws.