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Stephenson Philosophers
the legal philosophers
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Law
12th Grade
06/20/2012

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Socrates 
Definition

rule of law is supreme, obeying law is the highest public duty, have to obey all laws even flawed ones 

 

natural law 

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Plato 
Definition

most basic law is that people want to be good 

 

natural law 

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Aristotle 
Definition

belives in reason, peole are born good, made good by teaching, law regulates human life, allows people to reach their greatest good 

 

rationlism 

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Hobbes 
Definition

people are mostly evil, people need to give up rights to the king to preserve order, government and law is needed to preserve order 

 

Postive law 

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Locke 
Definition

right to rebel aganist the established order 

life libery and property laws should not infridge on rights 

 

postive 

Term
St. Thomas Aquinas 
Definition

Chritian teacher, 

people should not follow laws that conflict with divine law 

 

divine law 

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Bentham and Austen 
Definition

laws should be benifitual for the most amoutn of people 

utiliarism 

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Dworkin 
Definition

connect between law and morality 

law cannot be seperated from moral or political judgment by differnt judges can look at the same case and come to differnt rulings 

 

positive 

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Hart 
Definition

law is open and has limitations areas that are determined by courts law is flexable 

 

positive 

 

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Rawls 
Definition

Justice as fairness 

liberity for all 

 

inequility in justice if it is helping the less well off 

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