But modern jurisprudence would tend to dismiss this in the same way that it has rejected natural law theory.
Jurisprudence is now overwhelmingly positivist or else rooted in absolutist notions of human rights.
This has led to a dangerous gulf between the rulers and the ruled. The fact is that ethics and the law has to be grounded in something, and an improved understanding of human nature and the passions is not such a bad place to start. All rights reserved.