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What philosophical theory explains that political authority comes from the agreement of the people?
Social Contract Theory
What type of law is based on nature, reason, or divine order rather than human-made rules?
Natural Law
Affirms self-preservation as innate
Cicero
Give the full course title, section, time and schedule.
GEC107 (ETHICS)- MTh (9:00AM - 10:30AM)
Which natural law states that reason guides humans to act according to these inclinations and to create social rules and institutions.
Law of Reason
What is the hypothetical condition where humans live without government, laws, or political authority?
State of Nature
What natural law idea states that power determines what is considered law or justice?
Law of the Strongest
Which natural law concept says that the basic instinct of all living beings is to preserve their own life?
Law of Self-Preservation
Natural law is _______, which means what comes naturally to us.
Deontological
True or False. In natural law as the law of the strongest, the strongest identify their will with courage and justice.
False
What agreement in social contract theory unites individuals to form a society but does not yet create a government?
Pactum Unionis
Which philosopher developed the idea that natural law is part of God’s eternal law and that humans participate in it through reason?
Thomas Aquinas
Guess the group member.
Arabela
He stated that living beings naturally seek what sustains their survival.
Chrysippus
Give at least one human inclinations under reason.
Self-preservation
Procreation and raising children
Increasing knowledge and living in ordered society
Who is the philosopher that believed life in the state of nature is “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short”?
Thomas Hobbes
Who wrote Natural Law and Natural Rights and developed the modern “New Natural Law Theory”?
John Finnis
What agreement in social contract theory authorizes a governing power to enforce laws and protect the community.
Pactum Subjectionis
Give one work of Nietzsche.
Twilight of the Idols or On the Genealogy of Morality
What contemporary philosophical tradition dominates modern natural law thinking by reviving and reinterpreting the principles of Thomas Aquinas in modern legal and moral contexts?
Neo-Thomist Christian philosophy
Guess the group member
Zoey
What concept in Rousseau’s philosophy refers to the collective interest or common good of the community?
General Will
He stated that the natural law as the law of reason is “Innate law written on human hearts; even nations without human law follow it.”
Paul of Tarsus
A model that emphasizes that people are capable of reason, they recognize moral rules and know they should not harm others.
The Lockean Model
Full name of our professor
Deborah Trexie Q. Torres