Towards Revival of Natural Law Philosophy: Containing Riddles of International Restiveness in the C21st

Abstract

In contemporary world, streets of various countries are littered with all forms of peaceful and violent protests with virtually the same demand, against pain, indignity, employment, corruption and bad governance all of which sum up in the people's quest for change. At international level is the quest of various States to assert their superiority over one another, including all kinds of religious and ideological movements, some of which have set the world on similar path with those that culminated in the Second World War. From the perspective of the volatile nature of the world restiveness in this behalf, the paper by doctrinal approach examined the strategic place of natural law philosophy as a more effective instrument in redirecting the world to the path of sanity. The paper thus recommended the rebirth of natural law, not necessarily as a body of actual law enacted or interpreted and enforced by Courts but as a humanistic scale upon which legitimacy of acts of the legislature, Judges and Jurists must be judged, as an embodiment of several inherent values of morality, justice, equality, ethical thoughts and reasoning, with characteristic adaptability to novel challenges of each dispensation.