All 16 Uses
natural law
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Sophie's World
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- This led to the thought that there exists a universal right-ness, the so-called natural law.†
Chpt 12natural law = rules of conduct said to be universally desired by all peoples
- And because this natural law was based on timeless human and universal reason, it did not alter with time and place.
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- Natural law governed all mankind, even slaves.†
Chpt 12
- He demonstrated that a few natural laws apply to the whole universe.†
Chpt 16
- In calculating the planetary orbits he had merely applied two natural laws which Galileo had already proposed.†
Chpt 16
- When Newton had proved that the same natural laws applied everywhere in the universe, one might think that he thereby undermined people's faith in God's omnipotence.†
Chpt 16
- He regarded the natural laws as proof of the existence of the great and almighty God.†
Chpt 16
- God controls the world through natural laws.†
Chpt 19
- Hume did not deny the existence of unbreakable 'natural laws,' but he held that because we are not in a position to experience the natural laws themselves, we can easily come to the wrong conclusions.†
Chpt 21
- Hume did not deny the existence of unbreakable 'natural laws,' but he held that because we are not in a position to experience the natural laws themselves, we can easily come to the wrong conclusions.†
Chpt 21
- People had progressed steadily in their understanding of natural laws.†
Chpt 23
- Thus God is reduced to the 'Supreme Being' who only reveals himself to mankind through nature and natural laws, never in any 'supernatural' way.†
Chpt 23
- Hume showed that we can neither perceive nor prove natural laws.†
Chpt 24
- At the same time we saw philosophers like the Stoics, for example, and Spinoza, who said that everything happens through the necessity of natural law.†
Chpt 24
- It's a natural law.†
Chpt 29
- Because the same natural laws are in operation.†
Chpt 34
Definitions:
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(1)
(natural law) rules of conduct said to be universally desired by all peoples
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)