Unfolding the Contributions of Greek & Roman Philosophers in Natural Law School of Jurisprudence

Abstract

Law is a social science in which the Natural law school is grundnorm as it is one of the most fundamental school which introduced us to the concept of law as a metaphysical thing that is separated from the morals, values and ethos. As per natural law school, the law is supreme, the origin of natural law school was done by early scholars of Greek and then it further gets developed with changing time in the Greek society and then in Roman world. Here in this paper author has tried to decode the scholarly work on the topic of the contribution of scholars from Roman and Greek jurisprudence as what they had contributed in the Natural school of law. The author unfolded some ignored but important topics as whose contribution possess more importance and helped the natural law school to evolve with time, it is worthwhile to mention here that author provided a comparative analysis between the scholar of Greek and Roman scholars Before all of that author provided a novel definition which he thinks fit for the Natural school of law, the definition is given by the author is a mix of important factors of many definitions that are prevailing about Natural School of law. The paper deals with the aspect of the meaning of Natural school of law, its origin and evolution with the changing time. Then the other part is divided between the work contribution and criticism of Roman and Greek Scholars. Finally, the paper gets concludes with the analysis of the work and whose contribution matters more towards the natural school of law. The present paper is adding new horizons to the existing knowledge of the law with an analytical and comparative approach.