| 单词 | natural law |
| 释义 | natural lawSEE SYNONYMS FOR natural law ON THESAURUS.COM nouna principle or body of laws considered as derived from nature, right reason, or religion and as ethically binding in human society. Compare positive law. Origin of natural lawMiddle English word dating back to 1350–1400 Words nearby natural lawnaturalize, natural justice, natural killer cell, natural language, natural language processing, natural law, natural levee, natural logarithm, naturally, natural mutation, natural number Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for natural law
British Dictionary definitions for natural lawnatural law nounan ethical belief or system of beliefs supposed to be inherent in human nature and discoverable by reason rather than revelation a nonlogically necessary truth; law of natureSee also nomological (def. 2) the philosophical doctrine that the authority of the legal system or of certain laws derives from their justifiability by reason, and indeed that a legal system which cannot be so justified has no authority Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Cultural definitions for natural lawnatural law The doctrine that human affairs should be governed by ethical principles that are part of the very nature of things and that can be understood by reason. The first two paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence contain a clear statement of the doctrine. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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