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Explain the Natural Law approach to Ethics.
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AO1 Explain the Natural Law approach to Ethics. Natural Law, in ethical philosophy, theology, law, and social theory, a set of principles, based on what are assumed to be the permanent characteristics of human nature, that can serve as a standard for evaluating conduct and civil laws. It is considered fundamentally unchanging and universally applicable. Because of the ambiguity of the word nature, the meaning of natural varies. Thus, natural law may be considered an ideal to which humanity aspires or a general fact, the way human beings usually act. Natural law is contrasted with positive law, the enactments of civil society. People believe that a there is a rule, which exists without reason, or God put them in place for morality. They believe that right and wrong, good and evil follow a 'natural law' that we can discover through our observations and reason. Morality works in the same way...
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