POL 2108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Toleration, Natural Justice

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 2108
• Professor: Wolfgang Koerner

Document Summary

For him all power is guided/limited by law and discretion, not arbitrary will. He refuses to identify the will of the sovereign and law. Burke appeals to universal moral law, led to some to argue that he comes from natural law tradition and his stance entails the belief in god. What burke did was argue by systematic imposing hardship by the population the law depresses both moral and industry- government has responsibility to society and the people, because burke sees society as a whole. There are principals of universal natural justice and believes positive law shouldn"t deviate. Human laws strictly speaking are not made by are clerical. They make explicit has no power to alter original justice, he contends the laws of morality are the same everywhere. There is some things we can agree option being virtue. For burke the source of authority is god.