National-Socialism and Communal Natural Law

This chapter describes in detail how the National-Socialist rejection of rational Natural Law aroused all social groups for whom rational Natural Law was a positive influence. The problem, however, for those social groups was that the conception of Natural Law had thus far lacked precision as far as the term “law” was concerned. The chapter questions the difference between societal and communal Natural Law, which has been suggested since as early as the 17th century. The chapter presents a number of features of the ideal types of the two man forms of Natural Law. Discussing the concrete subtleties of Natural Law are beyond the scope of this chapter; however, the aim is to create a formulation of ideal types rather than simply describe them.