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It has more than once been observed that funeral orations for the
natural law have always been premature. ! The implication that the
concept has a continuing vitality, giving the lie to the prophets
of its doom, is justification for yet another book on a subject,
now as much as ever in the two and a half millenia of its history a
matter of controversy. The history of the natural law has often
been written -or at least the history of the concept in the Western
European Greco 2 Roman tradition. This study does not claim to be a
history, although its method is primarily historical and its
subject is an idea that, more perhaps than most, has been shaped by
its history. The omissions, Hobbes, Vico, Kant, Hegel for example,
amply demonstrate that this is not a systematic history. On the
other hand it accepts that In an orderly preparation for the study
of natural law the most impor tant step would be to list the main
modifications undergone by the notion of natural law as a result of
doctrinal and historical cir cumstances? 1 Bergbohm, Jurisprudenz
und Rechtsphilosophie, cited in a. M. Manser, Vas Natu"echt in
Thomistischer Beleuchtung, p. 1; cf. A. P. d'Entreves, Natural Law,
p. 13: "It was declared dead, never to rise again from its ashes.
Yet natural law has survived and still calls for discussion. " 2 A.
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