Does Nature Make Laws? An Introduction to the Natural Law Tradition | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
The Thomistic Institute
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Aristotle's Law According to Nature
Hobbs would not answer in terms of natural law, and yet the fact that he does provide an answer suggests that. despite himself, he retains a sense of binding obligation or justice prior to man made law. It seem that mill must acknowledge, at least implicitly, an independent standard for how human beings should behave,. apart from any man made conventions about how they do behave. And this in some way accounts for modern confusions and controversies about what is meant by natural law. So while i have been arguing that it is inescapable to grasp that there is a higher law, i have also acknowledged that it is not inescapables to call this a law, much less to call it
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