PHILOS 3Q03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Human Sexual Activity
28 Sep 2017
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Many nl theorists condemn, e. g. ebortion & homosexuality unnatural inclinations . Very easy to slide into deeming certain things unnatural that are not the norm: c. evil legal systems & laws (apartheid south africa, nazi germany) Courts, trials, body of law used to justify coercion, etc. Perhaps law fundamentally a social institution that human beings create and practice for all sorts of purposes, only some of which are moral. Law is a mechanism that can be put to all kinds of purposes, some of which aren"t morally palatable. Mark murphy: the weak natural law thesis: natural law jurisprudence. #1: concerned about strong natural law thesis: a law that is unjust is no law at all . Thursday, september 14, 2017: easy target for opponents of nlt, based on misreading uncharitable reading of nlt, solution: snl thesis applies to the kind law not individual laws and legal systems.
