ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some reflections based on the basic tenets of the metaphysical tradition of Western civilization, which may be expressed as follows: humanity is a universal reality, in the sense that every human being is formed by logos, that is, is logos in essence. The explanation of rationalis is important because on it depend the fundamental sense of human universality/transcendentality. If the venerable notion of natural law is to have any sense today, this may only have begun with human universality or transcendentality. Natural law, then, can only mean, first, what a human being is destined to want of his own accord as his flourishing good. Everybody should always recognize the same right to every other subjectivity, with whom he interacts in a relationship. This is what the Golden Rule commands when it is understood in its proper depth and in its incomparable transcendentality. The Golden Rule seems to cover not only justice, but also political friendship.
