Concept Crushed: Natural Law
jurisprudence clat_ug intermediate success_shareFinally, got it! I was stuck in the muck of Jurisprudence for ages, and then suddenly, Natural Law struck a chord. You know, like when Aamir Khan's character in Taare Zameen Par finally understands the music. I was reading Kelsen, but it all clicked when I read the Natural Law stuff by John Locke. His idea of a moral law being a higher law just got it for me. I feel like I just hit a six in cricket, you know? I mean, I didn't exactly understand it before, but now I feel like I can explain it to anyone. And let me tell you, it's been a while since I felt this way about anything. My scores for Jurisprudence in the last mock were pretty decent too, so I guess I'm on a roll. Bring on the next challenge!
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"Yeh concept to bahut prachin hai, lekin uthne mein mudda hai. Thoda aur deep mehsoos hai. Natural law ka matlab hai ki kuchh laws na ghar ke dauran banayi jaati hain, na ki government. Ye laws apni sanskritik aur samajik parivartanshakta par asar daalte hain. Lekin koi bhi law apni samay, jagah aur jaati par asar daal sakti hai.
Yaar, I completely agree with you on this one. The natural law theory, which assumes a universal moral code, has been consistently criticized for being too vague and culturally insensitive. I mean, what's universal about a moral code developed in ancient Greece? It's time to move on from the 17th-century ideas, and focus on more nuanced and context-specific approaches to law and morality.