Consider the following statements regarding Natural Law and choose the correct option:
- The central notion of natural law is the existence of objective moral principle.
- These principles are discovered by reference to legal sources as the Constitution, Codes and so on.
- These principles are discovered as the essential nature of man.
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1, 2 and 3 are correct.
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1 and 2 are correct.
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2 and 3 are correct.
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1 and 3 are correct.
D
Correct answer
Explanation
Statement 1. The central notion of natural law is the existence of objective moral principle as the point of moral principles is to give ethical structure to the pursuit of these basic goods.
Statement 3. These principles are discovered as the essential nature of man. Moral principles enable us to select among competing goods and to define what a human being can permissibly do in pursuit of basic goods.