TY - JOUR
AU - Urdang, Elliot W.
AB - No embarrassment need be felt at calling attention once again to Locke's theory of natural law. The very bulk of the literature devoted to it over the last few years attests, after all, to the intensity of current interest in the subject. I t attests as well to the marked persistence of scholarly disagreement about it, and to the fact that Locke's theory despite "the keen interest evinced by scholars" continues to suffer "from violent and sometimes most learned and elaborate dis- tortions." Nowhere is this more evident than in recent discussion concerning his teaching on the precise relation of natural law to God. The question is an abstruse one, perhaps, but it is one with important ramifications in other sectors of his thinking, and one, moreover, which his contemporaries were not prone to dismiss as lacking in consequence. Noting that Locke allowed "Moral Good and Evil to be such antecedently to all Human Laws" and seemed to ground them in the divine law, Thomas Burnet—one of his first critics—needled him by asking "what is the Reason or Ground of the Divine Law? Whether the Arbitrary Will of God, Th e good of Men, or the intrinsick Nature of 
TI - Locke, Natural Law, and God
JF - American Journal of Jurisprudence
DO - 10.1093/ajj/11.1.92
DA - 1966-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/locke-natural-law-and-god-KUlUE79iV9
SP - 92
EP - 109
VL - 11
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -