PHIL 1002 Lecture 9: The Nomos of the Earth 2
6 Feb 2018
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Lecture 9: the nomos of the earth 2. Schmitt begins by claiming that the earth is the "mother of law. " "in this way, the earth is bound to law in three ways. She contains law within herself as a reward of labour; she manifests law upon herself, as fixed boundaries; and she sustains law above herself, as a public sign of order. Law is bound to the earth and related to the earth. This is what the poet means when he speaks of the infinitely just earth: justissima tellus. " Law did not arise on the sea but on the land, which seems a silly point, but schmitt thinks this characteristic is significant. Laws that govern the sea only emerged at a later point in human civilization with boundaries upon the earth were established, where a conception of law and nomoi existed, and then were projected upon the sea.
