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Outline the principles views of natural law ethics. To what extent do you consider natural law to be based on a belief in god?
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Outline the principles views of natural law ethics. To what extent do you consider natural law to be based on a belief in god? Part one There are laws that govern prisons, schools, and society then there are laws that govern the way the world works. Regulations, that is constant and unchanging such as night and day or the weather. We know these things, because we accept there are certain rules, which are part of the universe. Natural law is based on Aristotle's idea that everything has purpose. These rules will be the same in whatever country or in whatever time you live in, as they are unchanging. Then someone believed that these rules could be used to apply to morality. Natural law is an absolutist view that argues that human reason (given by god) was a starting point for morality. Natural law would be independent of public opinion even if a...
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