Isonomia — "equal law" — is the historical and philosophical foundation of liberty, justice, and constitutional democracy. Aristotle considered it the core ingredient of a civilization that seeks to promote individual and societal happiness. First ordained by the ancient Athenian lawgiver Solon (c. 638-558 B.C.), isonomia was later championed by the Roman Republic's finest orator, Cicero; but it was subsequently eclipsed for a millennium until (in effect) "rediscovered" starting in the eleventh century A.D.
This so-called "Justinian Rediscovery" put rediscovery "in the air"; soon, so-called "Aristotelian Rediscovery" took hold, too; the "result" was not what the founders of the Western Legal Tradition intended, which was the Kingdom of God on Earth based on Christian law, that is, Justinian law. The result, rather, was a synthesis of the Greek genius for systematic thought, the Roman genius for pragmatic administration, and the medieval Judeo-Christian-Islamic preoccupation with the "uses" of faith and reason to secure a common humanity under a common deity.
Isonomia — "equal law" — is the historical and philosophical foundation of liberty, justice, and constitutional democracy. Aristotle considered it the core ingredient of a civilization that seeks to promote individual and societal happiness. First ordained by the ancient Athenian lawgiver Solon (c. 638-558 B.C.), isonomia was later championed by the Roman Republic's finest orator, Cicero; but it was subsequently eclipsed for a millennium until (in effect) "rediscovered" starting in the eleventh century A.D.This so-called "Justinian Rediscovery" put rediscovery "in the air"; soon, so-called "Aristotelian Rediscovery" took hold, too; the "result" was not what the founders of the Western Legal Tradition intended, which was the Kingdom of God on Earth based on Christian law, that is, Justinian law. The result, rather, was a synthesis of the Greek genius for systematic thought, the Roman genius for pragmatic administration, and the medieval Judeo-Christian-Islamic preoccupation with the "uses" of faith and reason to secure a common humanity under a common deity.
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