Legal Encyclopedia. Letter E

law of nature

- The political concept that refers to the totality or set of rules, principles, rights and values ​​dictated by the natural nature of man and not The dependence on the specific social conditions and the state.

EP acts as an evaluation category of the legal system and laid down its system of social relations.

In the Middle Ages EP it was of a theological form. Its social value it received in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. as a weapon in the struggle of the progressive forces of society to absolutism.

A. Radishchev, Diderot, Rousseau and others have made extensive use of EP to criticism of feudalism.

In the XX century. EP reborn. In 1939-1945 gg. West Germany and Italy EP was used to dissociate from the fascist ideology.

Russian theorists EP attaches great importance to the inalienable rights of man and citizen.