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Natural law

An ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere.

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noun
  1. 1

    An ethical theory that posits the existence of a law whose content is set by nature and that therefore has validity everywhere.

  2. 2

    A generally accepted concept of the philosophical system of legal and moral principles purportedly deriving from a of natural or divine justice and not from a position of positive law but of ideas of right and wrong.

  3. 3

    Law of nature; relating to natural phenomena.

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