Date of Award

5-1925

Degree Type

Bachelors Essay

Degree Name

Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Department

Philosophy

First Advisor

William M. Magee

Second Advisor

Joseph C. Flynn

Abstract

Law in its widest sense is a rule of action; it is some norm regulating how a thing should act. In This sense all existing things act according to some rule or norm. Experience abounds with sufficient proof of this. Scientists moreover attest to the existence of such laws and the object of the natural sciences is to search these laws out. Thus men, eminent in that field, have discovered and formulated such laws as, the laws of inertia, falling bodies, light, levers, etc. In this sense we speak of chemical laws, meaning the constant uniform norm according to which chemical elements act; the laws of plants, meaning the laws which guide the movement and growth of the plants; the laws of physics, meaning the constant, uniform norm according to which things act; the laws of animals meaning, the norm regulating the actions of the brutes;etc. This is law in its widest acceptation, a law according to which created things act necessarily.

Comments

A Thesis Submitted to Fulfill the Requirements For The Degree of Bachelor of Arts, College of Liberal Arts, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

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