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Ethics for A2 Natural Moral Law Natural Law Theory Natural Law is a Normative Theory of Ethics (as are Utilitarianism, Situation Ethics, Divine Command Theory) It is associated in its completed Christian form with the 13th Century theologian Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274), but it owes its origins to the Greek Philosopher Aristotle (384-322 BCE). Aristotle Aristotle was a man of many interests, which included Biology. He was a great observer of the natural world (unusual at that time which tended to look for truth in revelation and a priori truths than in observation of the world about them), and put forward a system of biological classification. He believed that every species had its own purpose (Greek: ergon, literally "work"). Thus the ergon of a fish was to swim, a bird to fly etc. A particular member of a species was said to be "good" (in a non-moral sense)...

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