Both Uses of
natural law
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- That there was no law of nature that man should love mankind, and that, if there had been any love on earth hitherto, it was not owing to a natural law, but simply because men have believed in immortality.†
Chpt 2 *
- Ivan Fyodorovitch added in parenthesis that the whole natural law lies in that faith, and that if you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once be dried up.†
Chpt 2
Definition:
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(natural law) rules of conduct said to be universally desired by all peoples