Various thinkers seem to agree that Aristotle liked it best when the laws of men (nomos) unite with the laws of nature (phusis), but the laws of nature seem to provide the ultimate principles for Aristotle, the naturalist.
The creations of the human mind are within nature, and that includes religious philosophy. Plato and the Hindus thought that nature, including human nature, are subordinate to spiritual Forms, they thought that nature, and the creations of human nature---even great art---were misleading because they were really an imitation of the nonmaterial spiritual forms.
It was the spiritual world that was misleading. Duality is not necessary, but it is the material that subsumes the spiritual and not the other way around. Laws, spiritual or material, define things, objects, and are secondary to the objects they define. Laws are expressed by material minds and are within material minds. What was formerly thought of as spiritual is at best supermaterial.
The old ideas on spirituality denaturalize laws, values and reality, and so the laws of men escape, or think they escape, the laws of nature. What was once seen as God, or sacred Forms, was the involutionary God or Father Within, which needs to be seen as only the symbolic-experience of real supermaterial Godhood reached in material and supermaterial evolution. In the Twofold Path, the Inward Path leads to the Outward Path.
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