Is natural law theory question?
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Seems you are thinking about the division often drawn between being and becoming, the former beig real and fixed, the latter endlessly changing (you can never step into the same river twice, said Heraclitus; or even once, said Cratylus). But here nature is conceived God's work. I recall an argument between Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine, with the latter arguing for natural rights winning out over the king's law. I think Paine was a Deist, and believed God's word was written in nature. Thomas Jefferson thought this and wanted nothing better than to be a yeoman farmer so he could stand before God's presence in nature, or something like that.
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