PHIL 2260 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Sophocles, Common Good
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One of the ideas of natural law is that there are objectively correct answers to moral questions. That can be discovered with the use of our reasoning or intelligence. The expression, natural law, is used in an ambiguous way sometimes not used in legislative sense, but sometimes just referring to morality. More often, it is actually referring to law in sense of what the legislature does, or the sovereign (body in charge). More often, people are talking about laws in the sense we"re familiar with and wanting to connect it with what is objectively moral correct. Law (in sense of sovereign) and what is objectively morally correct. That approach to law, is often caught up with the telos of things. Purpose telos and the ordering/structuring of things (divine ordering, ordering in the natural world, order in human nature). There are secular and non-secular approach to natural law. Antigity main character is woman, sophocles wrote this play 441 bc.