Gnosticism, Law and Natural Law

Abstract

Gnosticism affects legal thought through topics that have in common

denying the concrete reality of things in Law. In this work, the author

generally characterizes the Gnostic currents and attends especially to three

topics that would have as a theoretical function to replace the classic and

realistic doctrine of natural law: consensus, the so-called “Human Rights”

and the ambiguous appeal to the “Dignity of the human person”.