PP213 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Legal Positivism, Naturalistic Fallacy, Law Of Obligations
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This gives you a correct idea of right and wrong. Note that with the 2nd condition we can essentially abandon this and still be moral. Idea of social being led to cordial behaviour (a right) Criticizes the idea that an unjust law is no law at all because morality is not part of those laws (we see this in wicked legal systems, such as nazis). It gets people to understand and question what it is to obey the law (i. e. is it just a moral obligation?) Problem with conditions of natural law is that they overgeneralize. Moral validity doubled with the rise of evolution. Hume: you could not derive an ought from an is . This meaning that not everything has a natural purpose and also you cannot derive if something is right or wrong based solely on deriving its nature. (ex.
