Theorıes Of Internatıonal Relatıons I Deneme Sınavı Sorusu #1407434

Which of the following can not be said about "Natural Law"?


Cicero pointed out that a single justice depending on single law is valid for all society. For him, if there was not justice in the nature, it would not be known as the concept of justice.

There is the law of nature, and there is human nature. These are of necessity harmonious with each other (and, ultimately, the same thing) because both reflect the will of a benevolent Supreme Being who creates and governs the universe.

To act in accord with human nature, human beings must deny reason (recta ratio) and they trust their animal instincts.

The purpose of philosophy is to assist people to achieve right reason-a real and distinct level of cognitive function where emotional and egoistic thinking gives way to virtue, morality, piety (or sense of the sacred), and intellectual and social humility.”

We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it.


Yanıt Açıklaması:

Universal law, natural law, universal peace, universal morality, universal human rights are not accepted by them. Cicero (BC 106-43) who is an important philosopher in the western thought stated that true law is a law in coincidence with the nature. Cicero pointed out that a single justice depending on single law is valid for all society. For him, if there was not justice in the nature, it would not be known as the concept of justice.

We cannot be freed from its obligations by senate or people, and we need not look outside ourselves for an expounder or interpreter of it.

“What Cicero is ultimately saying here and elsewhere is that there is the law of nature, and there is human nature. These are of necessity harmonious with each other (and, ultimately, the same thing) because both reflect the will of a benevolent Supreme Being who creates and governs the universe. To act in accord with human nature, human beings must exercise right reason (recta ratio). The purpose of philosophy is to assist people to achieve right reason-a real and distinct level of cognitive function where emotional and egoistic thinking gives way to virtue, morality, piety (or sense of the sacred), and intellectual and social humility.”

In this sense, the correct answer is option C.

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