Natural Law Theory
Assignment-Identify the parties and the moral issue(s) at stake. Concentrate on identifying the rights that are at stake.
Are they liberty rights? Claim rights? If claim rights, against whom are the claims addressed? see if there are any duties of natural law that you think are relevant.
Part I
Identify the parties and the moral issue(s) at stake, keeping an eye out for similarities that it shares with the other cases. Concentrate on identifying the rights that are at stake. Are they liberty rights? Claim rights? If claim rights, against whom are the claims addressed? any duties of natural law that you think are relevant.
Coursework-A large grocery chain orders its personnel department to screen out all grocery clerk’s applicants who have a prison record, a history of alcohol/drug abuse or mental illness or a problem with obesity.
Part II
The notion of liberty rights evolved out of medieval scholars’ reinterpretation of Roman law on the various forms of relation one can bear to property. The notion of a right that was developed was one that asserted an area of control over one’s life and was likened to the strongest form of property ownership recognized in Roman law.
Do you believe you are related to yourself as to property?
What are the implications of this view?
Do you think that you can use natural law to argue against the legitimacy of slavery? Why or why not?’ Provide your answer to that question here.
