PHIL 348 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Perfective Aspect
15 Sep 2016
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Natural law theory: natural law theory and positivism provide answers to what is law . Natural law theory: morality essentially being connected to law in some way: there are innumerable amounts of precepts. Weaker natural law theory: human law that is immoral may be morally defective but is still law. Both versions (strong and weak) share 2 elements: claim that there are universal morals/ universally applicable standards, claim about the essential connection between universal moral precepts and the nature of law. Complete a being: what is perfective or completing of a being depends on that beings nature, e. g. what is perfect for an oak is the kind of thing that an oak is by nature (dog, human) !2: to perfect human nature or reach the ideal of it, certain goods are required; these are the universal goods: life, procreation, social life, knowledge, rationality all lead to human ourishing.
