Natural Law
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2001
Abstract
The article begins, "Natural law refers to principles and norms that have prescriptive force for human choosing, norms and principles that do not depend for their existence or validity upon human choice or decision.1 Natural law refers to what reason can discover about rectitude in human choosing; these discoveries are not the product of revelation or the decrees of authority. Natural moral law might simply be called reason; observing it is a matter of doing what is “reasonable.” Natural law is antecedent to all human choosing. But God is also antecedent to all human choosing. In what sense, then, does the natural moral law depend for its validity or existence upon God? The revealed word of God tells us that there is a natural moral law."
Recommended Citation
Bradley, Gerry, "Natural Law" (2001). Book Chapters. 160.
https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/book_chapters/160
Publication Information
in Christian Perspectives on Legal Thought 277 (Michael W. McConnell et al. eds., 2001).
Available in Kresge Law Library
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