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Natural Law or Don't Put a Rubber on Your Willy Paperback – January, 1987

by Robert A. Wilson (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars 4 customer reviews
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Product Details

  • Paperback: 72 pages
  • Publisher: Breakout Productions (January 1987)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 091517961X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0915179619
  • Product Dimensions: 0.2 x 5.5 x 8.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,628,548 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 starsAN EXAMINATION OF "NATURAL LAW" AND "NATURAL RIGHTS"
By Steven H Propp TOP 100 REVIEWER on February 10, 2012
Format: Paperback
Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007) was a novelist, poet, playwright, lecturer, stand-up comic, Futurist, and psychologist. He was the author of books such as the The Illuminatus! Trilogy: The Eye in the Pyramid, The Golden Apple, Leviathan, Everything Is Under Control: Conspiracies, Cults, and Cover-ups, Schrodinger's Cat Trilogy, etc.

This short 1987 book is a response to L.A. Rollins' book, The Myth of Natural Rights. Wilson wrote in the first chapter, "I shall endeavor to show... that the Natural Law metaphysics can accurately be described as a verbal construct that... appears to be a map that does not correspond to any real territory, but... should be considered statistically 'normal' because most people most of the time are similarly entranced..." (Pg. 2-3)

He asks, "If such a 'law' is not explicitly attributed to a specific 'God' or a specific 'Government'... And we have already seen that it is not a law in the metaphoric sense in which the predictions statistically derived from scientific models are loosely called 'laws' (then) what kind of law is it?" (Pg. 23)

He says that "All the arguments in modern Natural Law theory would immediately make some kind of sense if one inserted the word 'God' in them...Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsRA Wilson is a genius
By Tree-hugging Steve on March 6, 2016
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One of the best things I've ever read.
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5.0 out of 5 starsdisappointed.
By kevin kelso on June 26, 2015
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Having to read. Good humour thou.
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2.0 out of 5 starsObtuse
By Patrick Campbell on December 12, 2012
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I am note sure who this book was written for, except maybe for some young sociologist or other academic. Not useful.
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