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The Philosophic difference between Natural Law and Legal Positivism is in the argument whether moral judgments can have universal validity or whether they are determined by self-interest. Although Natural law and Natural rights sometimes arrive at the same conclusion about specific problems, they both ask fundamentally different questions.
For Natural law the basic political queries are always asked to ones self. What is my duty? How must I, acting alone, in combination with others, or through the state, behave toward other beings? Natural rights fundamental questions are: What are my rights that other citizens and public official must respect? For instance a man who believes in natural rights and wants to commit suicide asserts a right to control his own life and that nobody else can and should not tell...

Posted by: Tamara Moore

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