By Schubert Ogden
The Notebooks of Schubert Ogden
Already for the Greeks, the standard for measuring all specific "laws" (νόμοι) is the "unwritten law" (νόμοϛ ἄάγραφοϛ), the "common law" (κοινὸϛ νόμοϛ), or, as it can also be called—in effect, confusing the distinction between "ϕύσιϛ" and what exists "φύσει," on the one hand, and "νόμοϛ" and what exists "νόμῳω," on the other-—the "law of nature," or the "natural law" (νόμοϛ φύσεωϛ).