(May 22, 2015 at 11:05 am)Anima Wrote: For example:
Under the natural law the rule is survival of the fittest. If I can kill it than I am allowed to kill it.
Under the ethical law the rule is what is best for the society. I can kill it if everyone is okay with it.
Under the moral law the rules is what I am okay with. I can kill it if I am okay with it.
I hope that explanation helps.
It does. So ethics and ethical law concern what is right by social convention. Whereas moral law is what is right by personal standard of right and wrong.
There is a close alignment between ethical law on your view, and legislative morality. It seems to me that applying the word 'ethical' to legislative morality you are endorsing a specific view of morals in which the consensus determines what is right or wrong. I would just point out that this is not the only secular theory of morals, there are moral realists, and anti-realists, who hold differing opinions to the somewhat anti-realist position of relativism. Codifying a specific moral theory into the language with which you describe right and wrong seems one step away from begging the question.