PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Natural Law, Physical Law, Moral Relativism
28 Jul 2020
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Although montesquieu was in favor of a secular and autonomous state, he defended the doctrine of natural moral law. There are immutable and universal laws of justice that cannot be changed by a constitutional act of the sovereign; these laws precede the positive ones and ultimately fall to. But on this basis, the different states are constituted according to empirical factors. Montesquieu"s political conception had a strong impact on the declaration of. Human rights in the french revolution, as well as on the constitution of the united states of. Pierre louis moreau de maupertuis (1698-1759) broadly followed the ideas of british empiricism; he was an admirer of newton and embraced his theory of gravitation. 1 principles of positivism, although he did not draw the consequences from them. Maupertuis, "force" is not something innate to objects, but a phenomenal characteristic, the result of psychic feelings.
