Natural Law

Natural Law

Introduction

Natural law theory' is a label that has been applied to theories of ethics, theories of politics, theories of civil law, and theories of religious morality. We will be concerned only with natural law theories of ethics: while such views arguably have some interesting implications for law, politics, and religious morality, these implications will not be our focus here (Freeman, 2000).

Major Elements of Natural law ethics theory

A general paradigm explicating the content of the natural law exhibits the following seven elements:

the natural law is naturally knowable by all human beings;

the natural law is knowable by the power ...