The development of natural law has had a profound influence on the course of
European civilization. I have started my research with natural law as it was conceived by
Socrates and Plato. I then followed the major developments and changes that occurred to
this original design through to the height of the Renaissance in the Sixteenth century. I
relied mostly on secondary sources for several reasons. First, the translations of the
original materials are all well-established. This includes translations of Plato, Aristotle,
Aquinas, Ockham, Suarez, Luther, as well as others. Secondly, and more importantly, the
emphasis of my research was not to describe the secondary and tertiary intellectual work
of the thinkers after Plato. Rather I wish to show how the philosophical forces that Plato
struggled against during his lifetime reemerged later in two major philosophies peculiar
to Europe and how these essentially distorted his original design.
ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All