On natural law as a possible normative reference point in legislative processes

Bogdan Szlachta

doi:10.21697/CSP.2020.24.1.17

Published: 2020-05-27

No. 24 (2020)

On natural law as a possible normative reference point in legislative processes

Bogdan Szlachta

Christianity-World-Politics

Section: Articles

https://doi.org/10.21697/CSP.2020.24.1.17

Abstract

In the modern era, the only indicator of the validity of law is that it is passed by the authorities in accordance with procedures. Has the classical theory of natural law ceased to matter? The author, referring to contemporary statements of popes and documents of the Catholic Church, analyses what significance natural law has today from a normative point of view and why it is particularly important in the present-day world, as well as in a multicultural world.

Keywords:

natural law, rule of law, law

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Szlachta, B. (2020). On natural law as a possible normative reference point in legislative processes. Christianity-World-Politics, (24), 13–24. https://doi.org/10.21697/CSP.2020.24.1.17

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Bogdan Szlachta

burgonski@onet.eu
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4841-589X

Affiliation:

Jagiellonian University Poland

Bio Statement (e.g., department and rank)

Bogdan Szlachta - professor of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow and the Ignatianum Academy in Cracow, lawyer and philosopher, author of: On the history of Polish conservatism (Cracow 2000) and Monarchy of law? English political thought of the Tudor era (Cracow 2008), several collections of essays, several hundred scientific articles and encyclopedic entries, editor of many collective works and selection of texts, editor of the Social Dictionary (Cracow 2004) and co-editor of the series 'Library of the Classics of Polish Political Thought'; editor of "Politei. Letters of the Faculty of International and Political Studies of the Jagiellonian University (since 2004); member of Academia Europaea with headquarters in London and the Political Sciences Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences.