Prescriptivity refers to the action guiding the nature of morality. ... Moral absolutism is the theory that there is no one true morality with a consistent set of moral principles that never conflict. ... First it would make the goodness of God redundant and second it makes morality arbitrary. In dealing with The Natural Law theory the most influential Natural Law theorist was Saint Thomas Aquinas. He argued that both natural and divine law is expressions of the one basic law established by God. ...

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Prescriptivity refers to the action guiding the nature of morality. ... Moral absolutism is the theory that there is no one true morality with a consistent set of moral principles that never conflict. ... First it would make the goodness of God redundant and second it makes morality arbitrary. In dealing with The Natural Law theory the most influential Natural Law theorist was Saint Thomas Aquinas. He argued that both natural and divine law is expressions of the one basic law established by God. ...

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Natural men are free, "masterlesse men, without subjection to Lawes, and a coercive Power" (Hobbes 141). ... By Hobbes, natural man bears no natural morality but he does argue that human beings are reasonable. ... Comment [CB5]: I would introduce Hobbes' notion of natural law here, too. ... He explains as follows; "The State of Nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possess...

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Also, for these few who are not Christian or those who merely choose to ignore God's will, is secular law the best solution? According to Luther, "By such externally imposed law [non-Christians] would be compelled to desist from evil, and would be hedged about by outward law and government, and subjected to authority" (Luther 9). In essence, the secular Sword and laws are set forth for the unjust not the just. ... He needs no law of man, only the law of love and nature, to set his path aright and to live in the service of God. ... Peace cannot exist in the state of war born out of th...

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Juridically protected, it was considered necessary to preserve Roman morality. ... While Shakespeare believed familial institutions best provided such a condition and Hooker looked to the use of positive law, both men resisted the radical transformation of society through religious zealotry. ... The first relates to the "estrangement- of people under the impersonal rule of the state; the second rejects the idea of the rule of law in the belief that a repudiation of such formalism ends the estrangement of individuals from one another. ... For the Founders, the maintenance of liberty required t...

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He opined in his Essay on Human Understanding, (in three chapters) that there are no universally binding moral laws. He explained in terms of history by stating that the morality of one society is the immorality of the other. He also compared morals to mathematics by saying that it is a demonstrable science which is subject to universal laws. Further explaining what those universal laws are, he noted that they were of two types, namely – Divine Law and Natural Law. ... The Natural Law is also an eternal law, which determines what is considered to be good and evil. ...

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This philosophy is the groundwork for what we now more wholly understand as laws of nature, in whatever form, not to be exploited or undermined. ... Along with advances in science and technology, philosophers began to see the world as governed by natural laws such as gravity and motion. ... Jefferson's words of the new Constitution were based on strong merit, but may have been overly optimistic considering the state of morality at the time: "I believe this the strongest government on earth. I believe it the only one where every man, at the call of the law, would fly to the standard of the...

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