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3 Ateneo L.J. 1 (1953-1954)

handle is hein.journals/ateno3 and id is 1 raw text is: JULY-AUGUST ATENEO LAW JOURNAL THE MOVEMENT TOWARD THE NATURAL LAW JURISPRUDENCE by PACIFICO A. ORTIZ, S.J. In the January-February 1953 issue of the Ateneo Law Journal we wrote an article on the nature of the natural law according to the sound Scholastic tradition of St. Tho- mas. It is the purpose of this article to show that that tradition, which suffered an almost total eclipse outside the Catholic world of thought in the last half of the 19th .century and well into the 20th century, is experiencing once more in the world of jurisprudence what Rommen. calls an 'eternal return', 'die ewige wiederkehr des Na- turrechts'. Writing for the Notre Dame Lawyer, the world-re- nowned American jurist, Roscoe Pound, said: Something like a resurrection of natural law is going on the world over . . . philosophical jurisprudence which was all but extinct fifty years ago has revived and taken the lead in the present century.' World War II and the mounting ideological tensions of the last ten years have served to strengthen this view. Modern man is becoming more strongly convinced that if law is to safeguacdhuman freedem and foster world peace, it must be founded not on force_ buton--reasg; that it must derive its validity not from theteer_-wi4l of the majority or from the so-called absolute- wereignty.othe State, 'but-froffi the fact tha4it .mbodies in a--practical 1Roscoe Pound, The Revival of the Natural Law, 17 Notre Dame Lawyer 287 (1942). 1 Digitized from Best Copy Available VOLUME III NUMBER 1

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