The Code Of Hammurabi
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Although the boundaries of law affect our lives on a daily basis,
and our own society continually uses legal coercion as a means to modify
human behavior, the very notion of such binding human guidelines is
testament to the evolution of secular thought. The evolution of “legal
positivism,” whi ....
Middle of paper
.... is also characteristic of
ancien t Egyptian divine law. The actual concept of “human rights,” as we
have come to understand them, is an understanding that has evolved with
legal positivism, along with man's ability to distinguish between the
spheres of the secular and vernacular. To prove these points, I also
intend to explore Hammurabi's codification of natural law, and Socrates'
interpretation of the state of legal positivism in ancient Greece.
Although misguided, the ancient Egyptians ....
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