On Natural Law Theory

With little exception, natural law theory seems to have been less compatible with certain schools of thought, hence, it's waning presence, thought not complete disappearance, in schools of thought approaching the 19th century Perhaps, in times to come we will see a resurgence of forward thinkers who One might even notice in such popular science fiction as with the 'Vulcans' of popular Star-Trek mythology and as with the Vulcans one finds strengths and weaknesses (pros & cons). Within what some might refer to as 'somewhat limited western jurisprudence', natural law is immensely influential. Early Greco/Roman philosophers and scholars delved deeply into Egyptian mysticism to formulate what has come to be known in the west as the natural law theory. The history of western natural law, arguably dating back to Plato, begins with morality as the defining origin of 'the law'.

Any study of the Hellenistic philosophies reveals natural law theory as a prominent, if not most resilient among Hellenistic schools of thinking. Additionally, Stoic / Natural Law was deemed the foundation upon which is built ALL human-made legislative systemics. Natural law is differentiated from 'human-made' in that it is a collection of 'constant' rather than historical or event-based phenomena. This theory, known as The Natural Law Theory, seems to be of Hellenistic and more specifically Stoic origin and dictates that nature and neither human legislation nor judicial specificity is the inner-workings of the human moral compass.

There is a theory which espouses human nature, to have embedded within it, certain basic and fundamental laws inherently discoverable through introspection & self-knowledge.