SOC101Y1 Study Guide - Lon L. Fuller, Moral Skepticism, Absolute Liability
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Natural law and theory (one complete article pg. Jeffrie g. murphy and jules l. coleman connection between law and morality. According to natural law theory, it is part of the very meaning of law that it passes a moral test. An unjust law is no law at all . Moral validity is a logically necessary condition for legal validity. There is perhaps a sense in which this suspicion may be justified, at least for the earliest and simplest versions of the theory. Even though some hard and unsympathetic things will be said about natural law theory in this section, the reader should suspend judgment about the ultimate merits of the theory until reading the much more sympathetic later section. Classical natural law theory was originally developed by such ancient writers as. People had simply obeyed the law out of custom, habit or fear of force.
