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He then examines the classic questions of philosophy of law, including the nature of law, positivism, natural law, the relationship between law and morality, unjust legal systems, and the obligation to obey the law.
- W. Bradley Wendel
- 2014
Summary. Not every creature has reason to live so as to fulfil its purpose in life. Just ask a battery hen. Her purpose in life is to produce as many eggs at as little cost as possible, then be turned into a raw material of the fast-food industry.
This chapter sets out some general theories about ethics. How do we judge what is the right thing to do? What makes a decision morally justifiable? What makes a person good? It considers some ethical disagreements and describes some of the general ethical approaches that are taken to ethical dilemmas.
Oct 6, 2020 · In this I will first argue that a core motivation underlying the natural law approach is to uphold the view that ethics is founded on what is internal to the nature of things, in particular ethics coming from what is inscribed in some way in the human being interacting with the world.
- John D. O’Connor
- 2021
In Section 1, I outline the history of natural law theory, covering Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Aquinas. In Section 2, I explore two alternative traditions of natural law, and explain why these constitute rivals to the Aristotelian tradition.
- Tom Angier
- 2021
Natural law ethics centres on the idea that ethical norms derive from human nature. The field has seen a remarkable revival since the millennium, with new work in Aristotelian metaphysics complementing innovative applied work in bioethics, economics and political theory.
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Aug 27, 2015 · This essay examines two dominant traditions in legal philosophy, the natural law theory and legal positivism, in terms of how they account for the normativity of law. I argue that, although these two traditions generally take the question of the normativity of law seriously and try to account for it, they are not successful in doing so.
