Nearly Natural Law

Abstract

The article focuses on John Gardner's Natural Law Lecture, delivered at the University of Notre Dame Law School on March 22, 2007. At the lecture, Gardner discussed the humanity, rationality and morality of human beings, and these are considered as characters that make people humans. Due to their capability to reason and distinguish right from wrong, people have developed norms to follow as a guideline as part of being human. Three lines of thought of the inescapable morality thesis, which is the inescapable part of rationality, are discussed.