5246 | Natural justice is the same everywhere, and does not (unlike legal justice) depend on acceptance [Aristotle] |
20856 | Justice, the law, and right reason are natural and not conventional [Chrysippus, by Diog. Laertius] |
3561 | Stoics originated the concept of natural law, as agreed correct reasoning [Stoic school, by Annas] |
22114 | Tyrannical laws are irrational, and so not really laws [Aquinas] |
22113 | Right and wrong actions pertain to natural law, as perceived by practical reason [Aquinas] |
23174 | Natural law is a rational creature's participation in eternal law [Aquinas] |
19897 | Human laws must accord with the general laws of Nature [Hooker,R] |
22133 | Grotius and Pufendorf based natural law on real (rather than idealised) humanity [Grotius, by Ford,JD] |
7406 | A natural right of self-preservation is balanced by a natural law to avoid unnecessary harm [Grotius, by Tuck] |
20484 | We should obey the laws of nature, provided other people are also obeying them [Hobbes, by Wolff,J] |
6225 | Obligation to obey all positive laws is older than all laws [Cudworth] |
6216 | Natural law is immutable truth giving moral truths and duties independent of society [Cumberland] |
19916 | The order of nature does not prohibit anything, and allows whatever appetite produces [Spinoza] |
19868 | It is only by a law of Nature that we can justify punishing foreigners [Locke] |
7574 | Natural law theory is found in Aquinas, in Leibniz, and at the Nuremberg trials [Leibniz, by Jolley] |
19959 | Prior to positive laws there is natural equity, of obedience, gratitude, dependence and merit [Montesquieu] |
19960 | Sensation gives animals natural laws, but knowledge can make them break them [Montesquieu] |
19750 | Writers just propose natural law as the likely useful agreements among people [Rousseau] |
7245 | Natural justice, without sanctions, benefits the wicked, who exploit it [Rousseau] |
7591 | Kant completed Grotius's project of a non-religious basis for natural law [Scruton on Kant] |
20933 | Natural law theorists fear that without morality, law could be based on efficiency [Zimmermann,J] |
20610 | Instead of against natural law, we might assess unjust laws against the values of the culture [Tuckness/Wolf] |