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[catalogued under 20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / a. Dilemmas]

Full Idea

Natural law suggests eight principles to understand which law should be followed in the case where both cannot be followed at the same time.

Gist of Idea

Natural law offers guidelines when a clash of laws creates a dilemma

Source

Samuel Pufendorf (On the Duty of Man and Citizen [1673], I.17)

A Reaction

[The passage is too lengthy for this database] As with the strategy of 'precisification' in the case of vague concepts, so we can have secondary principles to solve some dilemmas. What Hursthouse calls 'tragic dilemmas' remain, of course.

Book Reference

Pufendorf,Samuel: 'On the Duty of Man and Citizen' [CUP 1991], p.111