Again and with renewed vigor: natural law

Abstract

The author reviews the main contributions of natural law that arose throughout the twentieth century, explaining the theoretical contexts that give them meaning. This article provides a considerable literature, with authors’ names framed in its corresponding current. In this sense, the references to natural law currents and authors between the 1940s and 1960s are particularly detailed. The outstanding currents of that period (in their natural law aspects) are the neo-scholastic, neo-Thomism and Krausism, the philosophy of values and existential philosophy.