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Explain what is meant by natural law. 'The law will not lay down one rule in Rome and another in Athens...There will be one law eternal and unchangeable, binding at all times upon all people.' Cicero, De Republica, 3.22 The Natural law approach to ethics is a universal (as visible above in Cicero's quote) and prescriptive ethical theory, based on Aristotle's idea that everything in this world has a purpose. It is in fact governed by a divine purpose. It is based on the religious conviction that God created the world, creating a sense of order and purpose to reflect his will. Thomas Aquinas was a Roman Catholic Theologian (1224-1275), who understood everything was created for a particular purpose. Fulfilment of this is the good to which everything aims. He developed this from Aristotle's ideas arguing that the world we live in was created by God and has God's ultimate purpose as its final...

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