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Although the boundaries of law affect our lives on a daily basis, and our own society continually uses legal coercion as a means to modify human behavior, the very notion of such binding human guidelines is testament to the evolution of secular ....

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... degree to which their subjects were willing to submit. The absence of inalienable human rights in Egyptian society is also characteristic of ancien t Egyptian divine law. The actual concept of “human rights,” as we have come to understand them, is an understanding that has evolved with legal positivism, along with man's ability to distinguish between the spheres of the secular and vernacular. To prove these points, I also intend to explore Hammurabi's codification of natural law, and Socrates' interpretation of the state of legal positivism in ancient Greece. Although misguided, the ancient Egyptians systemically subscribed their lives t ...