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Evaluate Natural Law. Discuss it's strengths and weaknesses. The roots of natural law can be found in the ancient Greek and Roman world. It adopts an absolutist/ deontological view. In the play Antigone, which was written in the fifth century BCE by Sophocles, the ruler of Thebes forbids burial of Antigone's brother as a punishment for his treason against Thebes. Antigone breaks this law and buries her brother arguing that the state cannot overrule the immortal laws of the Gods, which, in this case, require the dead to be buried. In Nicomachean Ethics, the Greek philosopher, Aristotle wrote that the natural justice was not always the as that which was just by law. He observed that while laws may vary from place to place, natural justice is independent and applies to everyone no matter where they live as he writes: "The natural is that which everywhere is equally valid, and depends...

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