A little bit on Natural Law and the Philosophers

Ive started to read a bit from Ronald Dworkins Law Empire and have found it to be quite interesting. His concept of Natural Law really makes you wonder. Over the last couple of weeks we have discussed a few philosophers and their concept of Natural Law. There have been several historical and prototypically philosophers who have spoke on it very thoroughly. The two philosophers who I’ve learned a lot about and are slightly familiar with from this semester and my last semester Philosophy class are Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas.

From what I can recall, Kant tried to redeem the Natural Law through Universal reason and as for Thomas, he spoke about it very thoroughly in the Summa Theoloica.

Philosophers like Kant, Locke, Aquinas, etc. defend their beliefs in a universal law based on their beliefs that would be based off Christianity. They also state that there are principles outside of their “religious thinking/beliefs” that can be used to validate and explain their moral mechanisms.