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NATURAL LAW vs HUMAN LAW

In the book Law, Aquinas explains different of law types which are eternal law, natural law, human law and Divine law. According to Aquinas law means "a rule and measures of acts, by which man is induced to act or is restrained from acting". (Aquinas, 77) And law requires or show how a person should behave. As said by him law binds us to the rules and existence of a law gives us a reason to act. So it can be understand that law has a power to morally obligate acting in a way. According to Aquinas the relationship between natural law and human law is important. And also as said by him "every human law is derived from the natural law" or in other word each government published by moral law. I disagree with Aquinas because those circumstance isn't very possible in two ways; firstly there are some rules that it doesn't have any connection with natural law and secondly human law arrange only specific rules.
The natural law isn't a kind of law written. It is......

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