The Question/Prompt: Summarize Natural Law in your words, but quoting HARRIS and Dr. Snell’s lecture.
My Answer: Dr. Snell began his lecture with the problem. We can not get along. Typically the only reconciliation between two groups of people with conflicting ideas is force. For example, Snell explained, one candidate believes they have the best capabilities of running the country. Of course all of the candidates believe this and as a result the only way for any of them to win is have the force of the vote. This is a general example of the way one persons thoughts prevail over another. But whose ideas are truly right? It is after asking this question you must examine what natural law is.
Both Harris and Snell set out to describe what the natural law is about. Both emphasized the importance of not confusing it with the laws of nature. In turn they both came to a relatively similar basic generalization in that the natural law is applied to all regardless of sex or race.
In Harris’ book he wades through what the natural law is. He discusses where the argument for the natural law is strong and where it is weak. The natural law has biological and “characteristically human values” elements to it. By keeping in accordance with the aforemention categories, natural law promotes what those categories outline.
Snell’s descriptions were similar in that there are certain “natural inclinations” that we tends towards. These inclinations include but are not limited to self preservation and procreation. Furthermore we are beings that follow the law not out of “irrational habit, but by reason”.
My personal summary combined with the information presented in both Snell’s lecture and Harris’ book is that the natural law is an attempt at explain the things that govern human behaviour. It is a set of certain principles that have been brought out objectively and apply to all humans.
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