Right and Nature

Spinoza's Monism eliminates traditional absolute distinctions between 'divine', 'natural', and 'artificial',  Hence, despite his insistence, his classification of Right as 'natural' is indistinctive.  Now, those three realms can be re-cast within his system as, respectively, Substantive, Modal, and Artefactual.  Accordingly, for example, human making is, at the same time, both a natural process and a manifestation of divine activity, whereby 'artefactual' is not pejorative, as 'artificial' tends to be.  Now, since Right entails the existence of at least two entities--a bearer, and one to either respect or violate it--and the scope of Substantive and of Modal is each an individual entity, Right can only be Artefactual.  For, there is only one Substance in his system, and the essence of a Mode is to persist in its being, an inessential means of which is by associating with others, within which Right is, likewise, an inessential device.