Tillich's Concept of Natural Law

cartesian concept of natural law follows the evolution of subjectivity

the conceptual transformation of pre-modern era to modern times of natural rights philosophers rights issues which will be discussed below philosophical development beginning of the modern era. natural law in modern times, unlike many writers, ancient or medieval deemed not continue, but at the beginning of a new era in the world of thought which occurred as rotational different concepts of hum...

Euthanasia and natural law.

“natural” Law Revisited

articulates a view of natural law that is reflected in how judges apply the law to decide cases. This view, he argues, is different from the traditional metaphysical view of natural law, which says that what the law is must be determined by what the law ought to be. He argues that his view of natural law insists that the content of law may sometimes depend on the correct answer to some moral qu...

A Natural Law of Succession

Consider the following problem. You are given an alphabet of k distinct symbols and are told that the i symbol occurred exactly ni times in the past. On the basis of this information alone, you must now estimate the conditional probability that the next symbol will be i. In this report, we present a new solution to this fundamental problem in statistics and demonstrate that our solution outperf...

Quanta and the concept of organismic law.

I. Introduction A quarter of a century ago Niels Bohr first propounded a set of new and highly original ideas concerning the bearing of quantum mechanics on biological theory. They may be found elaborated in Bohr's later writings (1934; '958). Unfortunately, there has been only a very limited follow-up of this work in the literature. This is usually attributed to the fact that the observational...