CRIM 338 Chapter Notes - Chapter week 4: Summa Theologica, Natural Justice, Moral Authority
17 Dec 2019
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Classical natural law theory: natural law - provides a name for the point of intersection between law and morals, theories of natural law tries to resolve the tension between what "is" and what "ought" to be. Its principal claim is that what naturally is, ought to be. Justice describes 2 different but related ideals: general justice, our actions are generally just when we are wholly virtuous in all matters relating to others, particular justice: Specifically to treating others fairly or equally: develops the concept of "political justice, derived party from nature, and is partly a matter convention, natural justice is a thus a species of political justice. In other words, the system of distributive and corrective justice that would be established under the best political community. Americans, in the words of the declaration of independence of 1776, to "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: also incorporated in the french declaration des droits de l"homme et du citoyen of 26.
