https://RationalAmerica.com/tags/natural-law/Recent content in Natural Law on Rational AmericaHugoen-usFri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/2026-10-23-how-to-reason-like-a-natural-lawyer-without-aband/Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:00:00 -0400https://RationalAmerica.com/posts/2026-10-23-how-to-reason-like-a-natural-lawyer-without-aband/<p>You’ve got a memo due Thursday. The precedent your partner loves runs on a sentence like, “The law will not countenance an absurd result.” In this office, that phrase is a punchline. It sounds, they say, like natural law. So you have two problems: the memo, and a vague suspicion that the man you work for is right to snort.</p> <p>Natural law has an image problem. Mention it at a bar exam review or a law-and-economics lunch and you get the same eyebrow. Someone asks if you’ve met Aquinas, in a tone that suggests you’d be friends and ride a donkey together.</p>