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| Laws: A. Laws are rules created and enforced by governments to regulate behavior, protect people's rights, and promote order and justice in society. - B. Laws of nature are fundamental principles that describe how the universe works. They are universal and unchanging. - C. The status of laws in the individual sciences is controversial, since they may only describe regularities. See also Natural laws, Regularities, Principles._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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John Locke on Laws - Dictionary of Arguments
Höffe I 246 Laws/Locke/Höffe: Locke(1) [investigates] in the (...) experiments on natural law(1) (...) how those normative principles can be recognized which are called physei dikaion by the Greeks and lex naturae by the Romans, i.e. "natural law". There was widespread agreement on their content in the 17th century. The aforementioned prohibition of damage (...) is considered a fundamental obligation. >Natural justice. How do we recognize the laws? Because of the agreement on content, Locke essentially only has to deal with the question of recognisability. In accordance with his basic epistemological thesis, he rejects the view that this is innate knowledge. Rather, he argues that there is an obligation that is perceptible across all geographical and historical peculiarities and applies to the whole of humanity. However, it is only recognised with the help of natural light, which is formed by sensory perception and deductive thinking (lumen naturale). ((s) KantVsLocke: The moral law is supernatural). Lumen naturale/Locke: Behind it, there is a wise and powerful world author whose existence Höffe I 247 one could deduce from the wonderful order of the world. Locke refers here to the so-called physico-theological proof of God, which concludes from the observation of an order inherent in the world that there is a Creator God. >Proofs of God. 1. J. Locke, Essays on the Law of Nature_____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Loc III J. Locke An Essay Concerning Human Understanding Höffe I Otfried Höffe Geschichte des politischen Denkens München 2016 |
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