ASP129 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Natural Law, Encyclical, Harm Principle

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25 Sep 2022

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Deakin University

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ASP129

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Freedom and the limits of state"s legitimate authority (freedom from) Pope john paul ii"s encyclical, the splendour of truth, addresses the issue of freedom and law very profoundly in that law should not lessen freedom. Good laws ensure freedom even when they are negative. Laws limit human autonomy by restricting freedom from (physical freedom) and but does not restrict freedom for (ontological freedom). Criminal laws, for example, remove certain behaviours from the range of behavioural options by penalizing them with imprisonment and, in some cases, death sentence. One kind of freedom may exist without the other. Hence a man can retain his free will and yet be bound by a law. He may be physically free to do an act, because he is able to do it, but he may not be morally free, because he ought to do it.

Related Questions

Does the Degrees of freedom for a coin experiment change depending on how many coins are flipped? I understand that in genetics the degrees of freedom is [the number of phenotypes-1]. For example, if you are flipping one coin, then the degrees of freedom is 1. Does this change if you are flipping 2 coins? Would the degrees of freedom still be 1 because your only outcomes can be heads or tails or would it be 3 because you can get Heads and Heads, Heads and Tails, Tails and Heads, and Tails and Tails? Thank you for any clarification.