Deck 7: Natural Law and Human Rights

Question 1

For Locke every person has a distinct right to punish those who transgress the natural law.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

Civil law is prescriptive and as such tells us how we ought to behave.

Answer 2

True

Question 3

"Laws of nature" is another way of referring to natural law theory.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Locke argued all humans should be treated equally because we all have the same basic nature.

Question 5

The natural state of human liberty is a state of license according to Locke.

Question 6

Moral requirements cannot be grounded in human nature according to natural rights theory.

Question 7

One problem for natural rights theory is that not everyone agrees on what human nature requires.

Question 8

The Declaration of Independence draws on the theory of

A) Plato.
B) Locke.
C) Aristotle.
D) Hobbes.

Question 9

For Thomas Aquinas all laws created by humans are derived from natural law.

Question 10

One philosopher who does not agree that there is such a thing as human nature is

A) St.Augustine.
B) Locke.
C) Sartre.
D) Aristotle.

Question 11

Existentialists like Sartre believe that essence precedes existence.

Question 12

Aristotle was the first philosopher to develop a complex ethical philosophy related to the ideas of natural law theory.

Question 13

According to Rorry,there is no common human nature to use as a moral reference point.

Question 14

According to Thomas Aquinas,humans are naturally inclined to be good based on reason.

Question 15

Moral laws are descriptive generalizations of fact.

Question 16

The idea that the basic moral law can be known by human reason and that we know what it requires by looking to human nature are two of the tenets of natural law theory.

Question 17

Evolutionary theory may present a challenge to natural law theory.