文档介绍：The Stoic Synthesis of the Idea of Natural Law in Man: Four Themes
Author(s): Maryanne Cline Horowitz
Source: Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan. - Mar., 1974), pp. 3-16
Published by: University of Pennsylvania Press
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THE STOIC SYNTHESIS OF THE IDEA OF NATURAL
LAW IN MAN: FOUR THEMES
BY MARYANNE CLINE HOROWITZ*
Many moral treatises of the Renaissance have as an underlying
assumption that God-written natural law is within man's nature, giving
him the potentiality to e virtuous. Some Renaissance writers em-
phasized, as did the medieval theologians, the role of God's grace in re-
viving that potentiality; the more secular thinkers, however, stressed,
as did the ancients, the role of the liberal arts in