CAS PH 155 Lecture Notes - Exegesis, Roman Republic
21 Apr 2014
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Cicero (c. 106-43 b. c. : defender of the roman republic, the first to speak of natural law as a moral or political law. True law is right reason, consonant with nature, spread through all people. It is constant and eternal; : does not change or go away; universal; timeless. It is wrong to pass laws obviating this law; it is not permitted to abrogate any of it; it cannot be totally repealed. We cannot be released from this law by the senate or the people, and it needs to exegete or interpreter like sextus aelius. : cannot be changed (amended, not up for human interpretation, cannot be violated or taken away.
