The pre-Socratics' doctrine of justice and law
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This article examines the pre-Socratics' doctrine of the justice and the law. In authors’ opinion, the merit of creation of the first integral study about the justice and the law as the basic political and legal categories in the history of western philosophical and juridical thought belongs to pre-Socratics. In this case the doctrine of pre-Socratics, being genetically connected with the mythological imageries, radically reconsiders the corresponding imagery, filling it with rational content, which makes it possible to speak about the categorization of mythologemes of justice and law in Ancient Greek philosophical thought. In the work the evolution of the study of the validity and the law during 6th–5th centuries B.C. is outlined and a conclusion is reached that precisely the pre-Socratics laid the foundations for the concepts of natural law, which had a significant effect on further development of political and legal thought. Refs 41.
Keywords:
justice, law, the pre-Socratics, categorization, natural right, the political- lawful thought
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