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Single Idea 20856

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / D. Justice / 2. The Law / c. Natural law]

Full Idea

Chrysippus says (in On the Honourable) that justice is natural and not conventional, as are the law and right reason.

Gist of Idea

Justice, the law, and right reason are natural and not conventional

Source

report of Chrysippus (fragments/reports [c.240 BCE]) by Diogenes Laertius - Lives of Eminent Philosophers 07.128

A Reaction

How does he explain variations in the law between different states? Presumably some of them have got it wrong. What is the criterion for deciding which laws are natural?

Book Reference

'The Stoics Reader', ed/tr. Inwood,B/Gerson,L.P. [Hackett 2008], p.123