Natural Law Theories Wessel Le Roux Semester Test Information

Moral and philosophical principles

Something independent of human will

Not morally binding (duty to challenge)

<p>Industrial</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Universal laws of nature</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Law in harmony with universal laws of nature</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Natural law is higher moral law independent of human will</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Political, legal, adjudicative, and personal conduct</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>As determined by an overall design for a specific purpose</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Overall design and universal laws of nature</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Laws of nature, natural rights, and natural law</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Protective rights</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Objective to subjective perspective</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Legal positivism</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To mediate disputes and enforce laws</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Respect for human rights</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ockham introduced the concept of nominalism, rejecting abstract concepts and universals, and asserting that God's will is free and absolute, not bound by eternal or natural law.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It paved the way for the rise of empiricism and the scientific method, as humans could only know empirical things through finite human reason.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Enlightenment's repudiation of traditional authority, mysticism, and orthodoxy, creating the need for a new universal foundation for law.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<ol> <li>Human beings have natural needs (protection from harm, material resources, freedom). 2. Humans can only know empirical things through finite human reason.</li> </ol> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Ockham's rejection of abstract concepts and universals directly influenced the development of modern natural law theories based on human needs and empirical knowledge.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The Enlightenment thinkers sought to reconcile natural law theories with the teachings of the Church and the scholastic tradition.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The world of eternal Forms and Ideas</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To create a perfectly rational and just order</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Aristotle rejects the dualism between the world of Forms and the real world</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To live a rational life of virtue and goodness</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To discover the dikaion (the Right) via phronesis</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They believed that all reality was pervaded by a divine force or Logos (universal reason)</p> Signup and view all the answers