Publication Date

1990

Document Type

Article

Abstract

The quest for natural law can easily seem futile to the secularist, and the legal terrain beyond human institutions has often been abandoned to the theologians and the supernaturalists. Most contemporary legal philosophers tend to focus on law as process, on legal positivism and legal realism, on the relativity of values or on the legal masking of class, race or gender interests. This piece will not do direct battle with these philosophies, all of which may have internal integrity and legitimacy within their chosen spheres. Instead, this piece will reexplore the possibility and propriety of linking the reality of law and human behavior to transcendent, universal standards--standards discerned through observation, experience and logic, rather than announced by denominational postulation.

Publication Title

University of Missouri Kansas City Law Review

Volume

58

Issue

3

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