Cicero
- Jurist
- Cicero
- School
- Natural Law (Roman Stoicism)
- Theory
- Natural Law: true law is right reason in agreement with nature, universal, eternal and unchanging; unjust laws are no laws at all.
- Quote
True law is right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application, unchanging and everlasting.
- Books
De Legibus (On the Laws), De Re Publica (On the Republic), De Officiis (On Duties)
- Propounded
Natural Law as right reason in agreement with nature; lex iniusta non est lex
- Definition of law
Jurisprudentia est divinarum atque humanarum rerum notitia, iusti atque iniusti scientia (the knowledge of things divine and human, the science of the just and the unjust)
- Born
- -106
- Died
- -43
- Portrait
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