Natural Law and Civil Law

Leviathan is the owner of the highest authority and a citizen with certain nontransferable rights. We should pay attention to Hobbes' natural law and reasoning about civil law or experience. According to Hobbes, they all match the range, format, and content. But the natural law of fairness, justice, legitimacy and morality in the natural state is not the law itself, it simply gives people peace, compassion, and obedience. Natural law already exists and is a law that will always exist. The governor and the judge rush and move, but since it is a sacred law, the law of nature always exists.

In Hobbes' s theory, the law of nature can only be understood by rationality, and like the law of nature, the civil law can not go against reason. "Nature law is the basis of civil law, they are mutually comprehensive and have the same scope" (Hobbes 174). According to Hobbes, the laws of nature were not actual laws until the federal settlement. After the settlement, they became federal law and civil law. Also, it can be said that "civil law is part of natural order" (Hobbes 174) In his theory, the natural law which is not written expresses "quality that makes mankind peaceful and obedient". Therefore, part of natural law is obedient to civil law (Hobbes 174)

There are positivistic factors that can not be denied in Hobbes' s theory, but there is an important relationship between natural law and civil law (ie between moral law and positive law), he also influences the tradition of natural law It will be. He insists that natural law and civil law "are mutually inclusive and cover the same scope"; sovereign owners reasonably can demand that the contents of their intent be moderate True moral limit is sufficient as long as you believe. For example, the hypothesis that requires people to act in a way that leads to their own death violates the self-protection law of nature conservation, which Hobbes considers to be the basis of the Government's objective, so that an effective positive law and Does not become. . Therefore, Hobbes tried to integrate the natural law and the tradition of governance, but some scholars believe that he is far from successful.