1. Cosmos and taxis

• Order enables us to explain the world about us, but not all social order is the product of deliberate action.

• Cosmos: spontaneous order, by-product of human activity.

  • Self-regulating

  • Its outcome will always be unpredictable

• Taxis: orders intended to serve specific human purposes.

  • It is more effecive than cosmos when the purpose to be served reflects a given hierarchy of ends.

• In a cosmos, knowledge of the facts and purposes which will guide andividual action will be those of the acting indivisuals, while in a taxis the knowledge and purposes of the organizeer wil determine the resulting order.

2. Nomos and thesis

• Nomos: describe the unversal rules of just conduct which will regulate a cosmos

  • Doesn't oblige to individuals to perform particular actions

  • Private law is unversally applicable and independend of specific ends

• Thesis: a rule applicable to particular people, or serving the ends of the rulers in a taxis.

  • Public law is transforming the social order from the nomos into a taxis