natural law
collocation in Englishmeaningsofnaturalandlaw
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natural
adjective
uk/ˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us/ˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
as found in nature and not involving anything made or done ...
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law
noun
uk/lɔː/us/lɑː/
a rule, usually made by a government, that is used to order the way in which a ...
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We need to distinguish between "naturallaw" as a moral tradition and "naturallaw" as a jurisprudential tradition.
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Not surprisingly,naturallawinterpretations were rejected.
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He denies moral as well as physicalnaturallaw.
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His doctrine is based on presumednaturallaw.
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The papers used arguments fromnaturallaw, scripture, and history.
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But it is no part of thenaturallawposition.
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That would be an explanation of thenaturallaw.
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The leading theorists ofnaturallawconcentrated on consent.
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But the weaknaturallawview is distinctive and defensible.
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But the strongnaturallawthesis commits no such confusion.
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But anaturallawtheory of adjudication cannot so abstract.
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Much of it is a violation ofnaturallaw.
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The first discusses seventeenth-centurynaturallawtheory.
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So none of the plausible routes tonaturallawtheory leads to the strongnaturallawthesis; they lead to but not beyond the weak thesis.
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To affirm that the moral reading is the proper understanding of thenaturallawthesis would be the end of natural law theory as an interesting jurisprudential view.
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It discusses the principal notions of the social contract without heeding its inherence tonaturallaw.
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So where do we stand in regard tonaturallawand rights?
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But to be fully scientific, resurrection theories have to be made consistent withnaturallaw.
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For those who do not subscribe to thenaturallawtheory, the enigma is indecipherable.
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The state justified its interference through references to reason,naturallaw, and humanity.
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It was at this last level that flexibility was introduced intonaturallaw.
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The "naturallaw" approach would claim that moral facts ultimately determine authority structures.
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Recall again the basicnaturallawthesis: necessarily, law is a rational standard for conduct.
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Further, this claim has often been cast as a matter ofnaturallaw.
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Consequently, for him both affirmation and denial of divinenaturallawin man are equally impossible.
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