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:MoralUni.png]] Moral Universalism - Indeed, morality aplies to all creatures capable of reason.
 * [[File:Virtue ethics icon.png]] Virtue Ethics - Were a classic duo!
 * [[File:Aristotle.png]] Aristotelianism - The foundation for most modern natural law theory.
 * [[File:Thomism.png]] Thomism - Helped to systematize me.
 * [[File:RomSto.png]] Roman Stoicism - We each helped shape each-others world view.
 * [[File:Clib.png]] - We both love John Lock.
 * [[File:Conlib.png]] - One of my biggest supporters in the modern era.
 * [[File:Ancapf.png]] - I hear you're a fan of mine Mr. Rothbard? Wait, what do you mean parents don't have to take care of there children

Frenemies

 * [[File:Plato.png]] Platonism - I love you Pops, but now a days, most of my theory is comes from [[File:Aristotle.png]] you're students theories rather then yours.
 * [[File:Fishe.png]] Hobbesism - I mean... you are a Natural Law Theorist, but you're a pretty unorthodox one.
 * [[File:Conserv.png]] - Why do you only cite me when you're trying to bash homosexuality?
 * [[File:Monkeyzz-Enlightenment.png]] - I helped shape his world view, but then he ditched me for Deontology and [[File:Utility.png]] Utilitarianism!
 * [[File:Lawson.png]] - I think you might be a little bit confused about what "Natural Law" actually is.