Natural Law Theory

History
WIP

Around the Time of the,   introduced the idea of natural rights, claiming that the natural law gave people the right to "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Property." The idea of natural rights has become one of the most popular parts of Natural Law Theroy.

This was in contrast to the earlier views of Thomas Hobbes, who viewed the only prescription of the natural law to be survival, and because you were always better off with a monarch then without one, the monarch could treat you however they wanted.

Beliefs
The Natural Law Theory of ethics makes the claim that there are a variety of goods towards which all of human nature is inclined. Unlike animals or inanimate objects, who are determined by the "laws of nature" we discover through science, humans have the ability to use reason to comprehend the ends towards which they are oriented, and are thus capable of moral or immoral action. Some of the inherent goods given to us by the natural law might be companionship, survival, pleasure, reproduction, or any number of  virtues.

Friends

 * [[File:JustWar.png]] Just War Theory
 * [[File:RomSto.png]] Roman Stoicism
 * [[File:Fishe.png]] Hobbesism
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Frenemies

 * [[File:Monkeyzz-Enlightenment.png]] - I helped shaped his world view, but then he ditched me for Deontology and Utilitarianism!
 * [[File:Lawson.png]] - I think you might be a lil confused about what "Natural Law" is.