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natural law  

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  • Natural law is a moral theory about the principles that underlie the duties and rights of free human persons; it also serves as moral grounding for human behavior. The concept is based on two key ideas: first, that the origins of human morality lie in a description of what human persons are by nature, and, second, that this moral law is discoverable by the light of human reason alone. [Source: Encyclopedia of Politics and Religion; Natural Law]

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