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About Justice-Advancing Jurisprudence & Natural Law

Somitr.com is about advancing natural law legal theory, or natural jurisprudence, and applying its natural laws and governance in the real world to advance true justice across the world.

If you want to advance liberty and justice for all, you need to understand what true justice is and why liberty is just.

You can only do that by learning natural jurisprudence and what natural rights and laws really are.

Natural jurisprudence is the legal theory that uses deductive reasoning from self-evident axioms to discover who or what has rights, what those rights are, who or what should be subject to legal rules, what the law should be and what should be illegal, whether law should vary by types of people or all should be under one law, what should the consequences be for breaking each law, who should enforce laws and how should they be enforced, and all other aspects of legal law.

Natural law is the legal law derived from the self-evident axioms of moral intuition, human nature, and the nature of reality.

Natural governance is the legal rules for enforcing and maintaining natural law and justice, which are also derived from the self-evident axioms of moral intuition, human nature, and the nature of reality.

A self-evident axiom is an assumption about a branch of science that is absolutely true, does not require any proof beyond the statement itself to prove it is true, and cannot be claimed to be false without performing a contradiction or contradicting other self-evident axioms within that science or otherwise. Self-evident axioms are a priori for a science, meaning that we must use axioms discovered through reason and intuitive judgement before anyone could derive any conclusions from that science or make any sense of its empirical evidence.

All sciences are derived from self-evident axioms. The science of physics and its physical laws can’t be true unless we assume the self-evident axiom that the physical world is real. Nobody can prove or disprove that our physical world is real by empirical evidence, but claiming the physical world isn’t real is a performatively contradictory. Making that statement is self-contradictory because if the physical world isn’t real, then neither is any statement made in the physical world, including the statement the physical world isn’t real, so making such a claim is a performative contradiction. Also, claiming that the physical world isn’t real also contradicts other proven physics axioms such as existence of matter and the laws such as the conservation of matter. Likewise, nothing in mathematics can be true without the self-evident axioms that things are countable and not everything is infinite.

The science and philosophy of legal law, also known as jurisprudence, is no different.

The Types of Legal Law & Why Natural Law Matters

There are three types of law: divine law, natural law, & positive law.

Divine law is revealed to humans by God, which is a supernatural deity that created and controls everything in nature. Natural law is discovered and derived by humans using logic and reason. Positive law is invented by humans through personal preferences.

Natural law differs in that it not only derives what the law should be through reason, but it also determines what laws are possible to follow. Without understanding human nature, it’s not clear if humans can possibly follow a decreed law or if two laws are contradict each other. If some people make a positive law that everyone must float in mid air for four hours every day just by clapping their hands, it would be invalid or not applicable by natural law standards because humans cannot naturally float that way by the laws of human nature and reality. If one divine law seemingly contradicts another divine law, then people will have disputes until they make exceptions or revisions, but the only exceptions and revisions that could work are the ones that are consistent with the self-evident axioms of human nature and reality.

However, by using natural law’s method of deductive reasoning from self-evident axioms, we can derive every legal law humans should follow and prove it’s possible to follow. All true rights, governance, and righteous legal laws can be derived from the natural law method.

Natural jurisprudence is essential for sorting out true from false justice. That’s why natural law matters.

The Fundamentals of Natural Jurisprudence

Natural jurisprudence begins with discovering and deducing natural rights because natural laws originate from natural rights. Every just law is a rule that outlaws a rights violation, so natural rights uncover just natural laws.

The foundation of natural law is the assumption that self-ownership is the fundamental, absolute, universal, inalienable, natural right for all human beings (Article under construction)

From there, we can derive the absolute, universal, inalienable, natural right to liberty from the right to self-ownership and more self-evident axioms about human nature (Article under construction)

From there, we can derive the absolute, universal, inalienable, natural rights to private ownership (to own objects) from the rights to self-ownership & liberty, and more self-evident axioms about the nature of reality (Article under construction)

From there, we can derive the absolute, universal, inalienable, natural rights to self-defense from the rights to self-ownership, liberty, private ownership and more self-evident axioms about human nature and the nature reality (Article under construction)

And from these rights we can determine the entire body of just law, the just system of governance, and all other aspects of justice (Section under construction)

There are many more real-world implications for natural laws that can be used to solve numerous social problems. (Section under construction)