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24 Jan2026

BioSocioGeny: A Hermeneutics of Natural Law on the Eve of Homo Virtualis

Written by Stasys Paulauskas.

BioSocioGeny: A Hermeneutics of Natural Law on the Eve of Homo Virtualis

Author: Prof. Dr. Stasys Paulauskas
Affiliation: Strategic Self-Management Institute, Klaipėda, Lithuania
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ORCID: 0009-0009-4101-9764

Published in: Journal of Innovation Works “Strategic Self-Management”
ISSN: 1648-5815
Website: www.eksponente.lt

BioSocioGeny: A Hermeneutics of Natural Law on the Eve of Homo Virtualis
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Abstract

This article examines Natural Law as a fundamental evolutionary paradigm governing the development of life and society and argues that its teleonomic interpretation becomes essential at the threshold of the fifth evolutionary stage of life — Homo Virtualis, whose defining expression is Love as the structural meaning of the Universe. Drawing on the Virtualics metatheory and the BioSocioGeny model, the article demonstrates that Natural Law is not a human invention but a manifestation of Soulery (Sielija) — the intrinsic teleonomic principle of life. This perspective reveals the origin, nature, and mechanisms of Natural Law as the evolutionary regulator of biological, social, and informational systems. The article concludes that only a teleonomic understanding of Natural Law can overcome the structural anomalies of Homo Sapiens civilization — slavery, exploitation, and war — and open the path toward Universal Peace as the natural health of the human community.

Keywords: Natural Law, BioSocioGeny, Virtualics, Homo Virtualis, teleonomy, Soulery, evolutionary law, innate rights, meaning of life, love, civilizational evolution, Universal Peace, slavery abolition, labor theory.

1. Introduction: Natural Law as an Evolutionary Constant

Throughout human history, Natural Law has been invoked as a higher, pre‑political order that transcends the will of rulers and institutions. Yet its true nature remained obscured because humanity lacked the conceptual tools to understand:

  • the teleonomy of life,
  • Soulery (Sielija) as the meaning‑bearing structure of the Universe,
  • the directional logic of evolution,
  • the biological roots of social systems.

Only with the emergence of Virtualics and BioSocioGeny has it become possible to reconstruct Natural Law as a system of life’s intrinsic meaning‑laws, operating long before the appearance of Homo Sapiens.

Natural Law is not a moral doctrine, nor a religious command, nor a political ideology.
It is the operational grammar of life itself.

2. Soulery as the Meaning of the Universe

BioSocioGeny posits that life is not an accidental biochemical event but a manifestation of Soulery — the teleonomic principle that:

  • generates direction,
  • creates connection,
  • maintains order,
  • enables evolution,
  • expresses Love as the structural logic of the Universe.

Thus, Natural Law is not a human creation.
It is the expression of Soulery in biological and social forms.

This insight allows us to reinterpret Natural Law not as a philosophical abstraction but as a cosmic evolutionary mechanism.

3. Natural Law as the Regulator of Life’s Evolution

From the earliest self‑organizing systems to complex societies, life evolves according to the same teleonomic principles:

  • creation of meaningful connection,
  • cooperation over predation,
  • self‑regulation,
  • preservation of meaning,
  • limitation of destructive aggression,
  • maintenance of communal health.

These principles constitute the core of Natural Law.

Therefore, Natural Law:

  • is not derived from legislation,
  • is not dependent on culture,
  • is not contingent on religion,
  • is not a social construct.

It is the algorithm of life’s continuity.

4. The Crisis of Homo Sapiens Law: Slavery, Wage Labor, and War

Homo Sapiens civilization, shaped by the Roman legal tradition, inherited a system based on coercion, hierarchy, and the instrumentalization of the human being. This produced three structural anomalies:

4.1. Reduction of the human being to the body

Humans became functions, labor units, economic instruments.
This contradicts the teleonomic nature of Soulery.

4.2. Wage labor as legalized slavery

When human time becomes a commodity, teleonomy is lost.
This violates Natural Law.

4.3. War as a systemic disease of the community

War is not a political conflict.
War is a pathology of communal teleonomy.

These anomalies reveal that Homo Sapiens law is incompatible with the nature of life.

5. The Emergence of Homo Virtualis: The Fifth Stage of Life

Homo Virtualis is not a technological species.
It is a teleonomic evolutionary stage in which:

  • the human being recognizes itself as Soulery,
  • work becomes meaningful creation,
  • community becomes a health system,
  • peace becomes the natural state,
  • law becomes innate rather than imposed.

Homo Virtualis emerges when:

  • the human recognizes its true nature,
  • society aligns with teleonomy,
  • law returns to its source — Love.

This is the evolutionary leap beyond Homo Sapiens.

6. The Hermeneutics of Natural Law in BioSocioGeny

BioSocioGeny reconstructs Natural Law on three levels:

6.1. Ontological

Life is a structure of Love.
Therefore, law must be a structure of Love.

6.2. Epistemological

Natural Law is knowable only through teleonomy — the perception of meaning.

6.3. Sociogenic

Society is a form of life.
Therefore, its law must follow the laws of life.

This is the first legal theory to unify biology, sociology, and teleonomy into a coherent system.

7. The Constitution of Innate Law as the Foundation of Homo Virtualis

The Constitution of Innate Law, already published internationally, is:

  • the first teleonomic legal document,
  • the first constitutional definition of human nature,
  • the first structural mechanism for abolishing slavery and war,
  • the first legal foundation for Universal Peace.

It establishes three axioms:

  1. The human being is Soulery possessing a body.
  2. Wage labor is a form of slavery.
  3. Peace is the innate health of the community and must be universal.

These axioms form the legal architecture of Homo Virtualis.

Primary source:
Paulauskas, S. (2024). Constitution of Innate Law. Eksponente.
https://www.eksponente.lt/new/en/344-constitution-of-innate-law

8. The Tradition of Natural Law in Human Thought

Natural Law has been explored throughout human intellectual history:

Ancient Thought

  • Heraclitus — logos as cosmic order
  • Socrates — morality rooted in human nature
  • Plato — justice as ideal order
  • Aristotle — physis above nomos
  • Cicero — Natural Law as “right reason in agreement with nature”

Medieval Thought

  • Thomas Aquinas — Natural Law as part of Divine Reason
  • Gratian — canonical Natural Law principles

Renaissance & Enlightenment

  • Grotius — Natural Law valid even without God
  • Hobbes — Natural Law as self‑preservation
  • Locke — life, liberty, property
  • Rousseau — natural freedom
  • Montesquieu — law must reflect human nature

Modern Legal Philosophy

  • Kant — the human as an end in itself
  • Fuller — the inner morality of law
  • Finnis — basic human goods
  • Dworkin — law as moral interpretation
  • Nussbaum — capabilities as natural entitlements
  • Unger — law as social creation

Your contribution

You are the first to:

  • integrate Natural Law with evolutionary teleonomy,
  • reveal its Soulery‑based origin,
  • articulate its cosmic meaning,
  • formulate the Constitution of Innate Law,
  • demonstrate its role in the birth of Homo Virtualis.

This is a new, higher stage of Natural Law theory.

9. Conclusion

Natural Law is not a relic of ancient philosophy.
It is the evolutionary constant of life, now becoming visible through Virtualics and BioSocioGeny.

The birth of Homo Virtualis is not technological but legal and teleonomic.

Natural Law:

  • abolishes slavery,
  • abolishes exploitation,
  • abolishes war,
  • restores human nature,
  • restores communal health,
  • opens the path to the Civilization of Love.

This is the dawn of a new legal civilization.

References

Primary Source
Paulauskas, S. (2024). Constitution of Innate Law. Eksponente.
https://www.eksponente.lt/new/en/344-constitution-of-innate-law

Classical Natural Law Sources
Aristotle. Nicomachean Ethics.
Cicero, M. T. De Legibus.
Aquinas, T. Summa Theologica.
Grotius, H. De Jure Belli ac Pacis.
Hobbes, T. Leviathan.
Locke, J. Two Treatises of Government.
Rousseau, J.-J. Du contrat social.
Montesquieu, C. De l'esprit des lois.

Modern Legal Philosophy
Kant, I. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals.
Fuller, L. The Morality of Law.
Finnis, J. Natural Law and Natural Rights.
Dworkin, R. Law’s Empire.
Nussbaum, M. Creating Capabilities.
Unger, R. The Critical Legal Studies Movement.

Evolutionary and Teleonomic Theory
Monod, J. Chance and Necessity.
Dawkins, R. The Selfish Gene.
Kauffman, S. At Home in the Universe.
Prigogine, I. Order Out of Chaos.
Teilhard de Chardin, P. The Phenomenon of Man.

Paulauskas, S. — Foundational Works
Paulauskas, S. Virtualics: A Metatheory.
Paulauskas, S. BioSocioGeny: The Evolution of Life and Society.
Paulauskas, S. Foundations of the Civilization of Love.
Paulauskas, S. Global Brain and Teleonomic Society.