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King Hammurabi is revealed the code of laws by the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash, additionally revered as the god of justice. Hugo Grotius, the founding father of a purely rationalistic system of natural law, argued that law arises from each a social impulse—as Aristotle had indicated—and reason. Immanuel Kant believed a moral Law imperative requires laws “be chosen as if they should maintain as common laws of nature”. Jeremy Bentham and his pupil Austin, following David Hume, believed that this conflated the “is” and what “ought to be” problem.

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