Natural law

Natural rights and utilitarianism are two ethical philosophies based on human nature and dictates on the fundamentals of humankind. The two concepts are incompatible since they are disparate in aspects such as; their principles on human nature and judgement, beliefs of the government’s purpose and responsibility, and their application of principles to achieve social and political unity. Natural rights are heavily based on the entitlement of rights, whereas utilitarianism emphasises the notion of…

philosophy, belief, social contract theories and universal law in order to specify the estimated circumstances regarding what humanity was like before societies came into existence. Locke and Hobbes were both social contract theorists and shared a similarity of both being interested in natural law. Natural law theorists anticipated that under natures circumstances, man was measured as a social animal. However, Hobbes differed from the usual social law theorists due to his individual thought and…

Human freedom, therefore, is not unlimited, but instead it is fulfilled in our abidance of the law. There is no conflict between freedom and law, because human freedom is naturally unable to create truth. These concerns about freedom and law have led the Church to reorganize its approach to modern culture, without altering its beliefs. Some, though, have begun to counter Church doctrine by denying the part of Divine…

The Natural Law arguments used against interracial marriage is that according to St. Thomas Aquinas is that reason shows people the way nature works and it must work because God made it. Natural is good which is right and unatural is bad which is wrong. Blacks should not marry whites and whites should not marry blacks and I do not agree with that because if you are in love with a person race should not matter and the Utilitarian argument for interracial marriage is that marriage equality does…

The law that Blackburn mentions is the Divine Law of God, or the Natural Law. “Natural law is a participation in God’s wisdom and goodness…expressing the dignity of the human person and forming the basis of his fundamental rights and duties,” (Blackburn 27). This law (Natural Law) orients us towards seeking the good, and avoidance of the evil. Living according to the Divine Law of God is what it means to live a Christian…

Hobbes’ maintains humans have a “natural condition,” which may be either blissful or brutish. Given such condition, Hobbes asks, how members of society to act/ought to be. Intuitively many philosophers agree members of a society existing blissfully is not only preferred, but better. And, if we grant what is better for society captures that which is good for a society, then individuals ought to act according to the promotion of this peaceful societal end. One objection to Hobbes comes from…

Through the laws of nature, he states in his writings, that the commonwealth is created when the people agree to give up their alienable rights. This occurs because originally there is no common power and people naturally need security, want peace, and order amongst…

A man’s hope for a change doesn’t grow weary: a change never comes about without a fight, a fight that most times involves violence, either a direct or an indirect violence. One such man, a pastor, a leader of the southern Christian leadership conference, and an author Martin Luther King Jr , wrote “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” written on April 12, 1963 in the Birmingham jail. He claim against the injustice towards the black community in the United States, especially in the southern part and…

Every citizen may accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law,” (The Declaration of the Rights of man and of the Citizen 164) respectfully. There are two big ideas that are seen here which are freedom of religion and freedom of speech. These rights can have been seen as a big turn away from political tradition…

Determinism is a philosophical idea that attempts to place all events that occur as inevitable as they are predetermined by previous events and the laws of nature. However there are many who came to be known as indeterminists who reject the notion that free will is absent from the process that causes events to occur. Indeterminists believe that there are possible events that have different probabilities of occurring based on human beings free will. Then Chisholm’s view of the agent-casual theory…