Concepts of Law 1

What is the theory that human laws are derived from eternal and unchangeable principles that regulate the natural world, and that people can become aware of these laws through the use of reason?

• Naturalist vision

• Positivist vision

• Aristotle

• Socrates

Who believed that the law demands that each person do what is right and avoid what is wrong?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• Thomas Hobbes

According to Thomas Hobbes, in the state of nature people led lives that were 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.' What did people agree to surrender in the interests of self-preservation?

• Their property

• Their fundamental rights

• Their rights to the sovereign or king

• Their freedom of thought

Who recommended that if the king violated the natural rights of the people, then the people were justified in rebelling and in replacing the unjust government with one that would respect their rights?

• Socrates

• Plato

• Aristotle

• John Locke

According to St. Thomas Aquinas, what is the part of the eternal law that has been revealed in the Christian scriptures?

• Eternal law

• Natural law

• Human positive law

• Divine positive law

Who believed that a truly just law provides 'the greatest happiness for the greatest number' of people?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Socrates

• Jeremy Bentham

What did Aristotle believe sets humans apart from other animals?

• Their reason

• Their agility

• Their strength

• Their speed

According to Plato, what was the answer to making people 'good'?

• Law

• Religion

• Philosophy

• Education

Who identified four kinds of law including Eternal law, Natural law, Divine positive law, and Human positive law?

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• Aristotle

• Plato

• Socrates

In naturally, human, animal live with freedom depend on their body strength. What do we call this action?

• Naturalist vision

• Positivist vision

• Eternal law

• Wild law