After the war, many German military leaders were prosecuted in Nuremberg, Germany, for “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” by an International Military Tribunal formed by France, Great Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union. Nazi defendants objected to being put on trial for simply following orders and the laws of their country. They also complained that defining crimes after the fact constituted improper “ex post facto” laws, which is specifically prohibited by the United States Constitution and the laws of many other nations. So, on what basis could the victor nations presume to convene these war crimes trials in Nuremberg?
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C.S. Lewis on
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Click Here for the Text to the Audio ==> The Law Of Human Nature.
I thought some of you might want to take a look at the appendix titled => Illustrations from the Tao which was taken from his book titled => The Abolition of Man and of which he also makes reference to in the You Tube hot linked above. As he states in his opening remarks to that appendix, “The following Illustrations of the Natural Law are collected from such sources as come readily to the hand of one who is not a professional historian.”
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The book from which these chapters were derived can be found on The C.S. Lewis Study Group’s ==>Mere Christianity page.
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You will find hot links for PDF text file downloads for each of the three chapters of C.S. Lewis’ book, Mere Christianity, the above being the first which is titled, The Natural Law of Nature, while the other hot linked text files can be found just beneath each You Tube hot link to chapters three and four from that same book which you will be able to access by clicking on the “Video Watch” hot link immediately above, where you will find the PDF hot links below the respective Doodle links [and if you’re not familiar with Doodle, just hang on, you’re in for a real treat], which can be used to access the text for those audio presentations as well. Of course, you can either scan along with the texts as they are read, or read them as an independent study.
Our primary readings are taken from a commentary on Aristotle, so it should be noted from the outset that strictly speaking, Aristotle gave us what we have come to know as an ethics of virtue, or a virtue ethic. However, the central virtue of Aristotle’s ethics is to be found in his idea of Justice. His theory does have a place for Law but it is in a relatively small place, yet still central to his idea of Justice. Even though he is not generally considered a “natural law thinker,” the focus of our readings on the Primer are principally on his very strong sense of natural justice that is at the heart of Aristotle’s ethics of virtue, we focus on the idea of law, while accentuating the fact that there is something very right that stands before and over the codification of human law.
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The Natural Law Primer 