What version of natural law supports liberal politics? ... Natural law theories hold that human beings are subject to a moral law. Morality is fundamentally about duty, the duty each individual has to abide by the natural law. Thomas Hobbes created a new approach when he based morality not on duty but on right, each individual's right to preserve himself, to pursue his own good-essentially, to do as he wishes. ... Is it natural law or Hobbesian natural right? ...

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It saw the state's purpose as to execute God's moral laws, to protect God's faith, and to further of God's truth. God had given a revealed law through scripture and enjoined his creatures to live the lives of virtue and morality. ... In his view, the liberal state led to the changes in the ideas about the laws. For Locke and the American founders, providing laws was the best way to protect the civil rights. In Locke's opinion, "laws provide simply that the goods and health of subjects be not injured by the fraud and the violence of others....

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Providing them with a sense of their own freedom, even while under laws and constraints, gives them a natural need that they were born with. ... He believes that morality and consciousness are what life should be based around. ... Laws and regulations are needed, espe1cially in a society that we live in today, but they shouldn't block us off entirely from our natural freedom. ...

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