This essay explains what exactly Natural Law is and how it can be applied to contemporary clips.
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From ancient times before Christ, to the intro of our country, through the Civil Rights movement, and finally making its way to red-brick times, all of the theories of natural virtue all have the very(prenominal) thing in common: that natural honor implies, if non explicitly states, the existence of a supreme being that instilled in man a notion of what is chastely right and what is morally wrong. But what is natural jurisprudence? Charles Rice says that the natural law is a guide to individual conduct and also serves as a standard for the laws enacted by the state. There is a phylogeny on what exactly natural law is as time progresses. There is a basic understanding of it through Sophocles Antigone; and so the idea develops further with the creation of the Declaration of Independence. Martin Luther King jr. expands this idea, and lastly, a modern day view of old texts (compiled by Charles Rice) explains what the essential meaning and relevance to society of natural law is amongst men.
Sophocles Antigone is one of the first major works to address the offspring of human laws being subject to a higher law of some sort.
Creon gives a decree that Polynices must not be given a proper funeral or burial. Since Polynices is Antigones brother, she feels that she is compelled by her moral sense (and the gods laws) to bury him. When faced with the penalty of death, she remains firm on her position. Antigone explains to Creon why she dared to break the law: Yes, Because I did not recall that Zeus was the one who had proclaimed it; neither did Justice, or the gods of the utter whom Justice lives...
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