Law and Ethics
2009
The Natural LawTradition in Ethics
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The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics
The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics
‘Natural law theory’ is a label that has been applied to theories of ethics,theories of politics, theories of civil law, and theories of religiousmorality. We will be concerned only with natural law theories of ethics:while such views arguably have some interesting implications for law, politics, and religious morality, these implications will not be our focushere.This article has two central objectives. First, it aims to identify thedefining features of natural law moral theory. Second, it aims to identifysome of the main theoretical options that natural law theorists face informulating a precise view within the constraints set by these definingfeatures and some of the difficulties for each of these options. It will not,however, attempt to recount the history of the development of naturallaw thought. (For a very helpful detailed history of natural law thoughtup to the beginning of the modern period, see Crowe 1977. For a veryhelpful detailed history of natural law thought in the modern period, seeHaakonssen 1996. For an article-length recap of the entire history of natural law thought, see Haakonssen 1992.)
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