ethics
Which Is Better, Divine Law or Natural Law? Plato once stated "is right as the same as what the gods command." I believe that people need something to believe in something higher, that they are unable to explain but only have faith in. I believe that people during the biblical era people needed something to believe in. I say this because people back in the biblical era people's life was very hard and full of pain and sorrow, so if people were given some kind of higher power people would be able to forget their pain and sorrow. Thus the divine laws were created and eventually from the divine law came natural laws. I thin divine law is Gods will, or to do as God commanded. I believe people need some guide lines to follow or people would stray off the pass and sin. Having divine law would also help societies to live together. When you have bunch of people li
ving together, that society would need some guidelines to follow so people would not do whatever they want to do. I am a Christian and I believe in the divine law first, before any other laws. I believe the natural laws that a society has a way for an individual to find out what that society believes and thus enabling that individual to question about his beliefs; also enabling the individual to grow in many different aspects of life including courage, prudence, generosity, honesty, all the characteristics that an individual needs to be virtuous. I believe that neither divine law nor natural law is better than the other, but to together, I believe in order to have natural laws societies need divine law in order for societies to have a general idea on how people should act or behave. The individual's divine command will help that society that believes Xiao 2in the same morals would make that society peaceful with each other and the ones that do not believe the divine command would only get punished with that society's natural law. If the individual is able to follow the divine command and natural law, I believe the individual will lead a happy life. Some people and states believe that capital punishment is wrong, because indirectly the person or people have sentenced another person to death breaking one of the divine commands, "thou shall not kill. For example the story of the Gyges's ring having a power which would allow any individual wearing the ring to be invisible that individual would only sin, because that individual has no virtue. I think when societies come up with natural laws they keep in mind of the divine laws, so societies, individuals can always be striving for better, or to be virtuous. I believe natural law is derived from divine law in the sense of societies are trying to come up with a punishment for the perpetrator. " Natural laws steps in and punish the perpetrator without breaking the divine law. Example would be if an individual kills another person would it be right for that society to sentence that perpetrator to death by lethal injections. Aristotle stated that, "an individual would need good virtue for humans to achieve happiness. " I agree with this statement a lot because in order for an individual to be virtuous that individual would have to believe in the divine command of his or her religion.
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