The Roman world epoch contains a major advance in the legal-political consciousness: both the idea of ​​the purely legal order which  while determined by moral ideas  cannot be skewed by moral motives in individual cases  and the idea of ​​entitlement (law in the subjective sense) which here is not thought of as in our time  as a notion of human rights (either in the true or the false sense of the word)  but manifests itself merely as a notion of the acquired right of the person  of a right warranted by the legal order