This book, as the author avers, is addressed, not only to lawyers, but also to educated people who have no special knowledge of the law. What is meant by law? How many kinds of law are there? What is natural law? What is the end of law? What are the relations between the eternal law, the natural law and positive law? What is teleological jurisprudence and what is conceptualist jurisprudence?

Dr. Friedrich is Easton Professor of the Science of Government at Harvard and the author of numerous books. As the title indicates, the present volume is, in the main, an historical survey—and the author displays a very comprehensive grasp of the history of legal philosophy.