More Applications of Natural Law to Human Life

Well,  that was a lot longer hiatus than I intended.  I got really busy at work and could not find the time to work on this treatise about Natural Law and Basic Principles.  But I can’t let it lapse any longer.  So, here goes.

Having said in other posts that Natural Law would show that all human beings are equal in thay they given life and the ability to reason, it does not say that all human beings are alike in every way.  Having been engaged in scientific research and engineering most of my life, I have become aware of the progress that has been made by Quantum Physicists in developing a Unified Field Theory.  This theory leads us to believe that, at the most fundamental level of existence, we are ALL ONE.  Listen as Dr. John Hegelin explains:

So we are all ONE, united through the fundamental nature of existence.  (And not just HUMAN existence..all existence!)  But as we manifest ourselfes as human beings, we are all individuals…unique individuals…with unique characteristics, unique desires, unique situations, etc.

Since I am unique, and have the natural characteristics of humanity, I can say that I OWN myself.  I own my body, my mind, and, therefore at any given instant, the space which I occupy.  Thus, we begin to see the beginning of Natural Rights.  If I own my body and my mind, I have the natural right of that ownership.  You, as a fellow human being, are also the owner of your body and mind, and have the Natural Right of that ownership.  This, even though we are all ONE at the most fundamental level of existence.

Think about the implications of that concept.  I’ll see you next post

Natural Law

As I said in my original post, I believe the place to start in understanding how best to get along in this world is to know the most basic principle of all. That principle, I believe is the “Natural Law”, that is, the fundamental nature of the species, Human Being. I am going to start the process in this post, and it may take several posts to complete my points. I will keep the posts as simple as possible, and if theoretical proofs are necessary, I will refer you to material published by others more sophisticated than I.

I’ll begin with a quotation from the Rev. Elixha Williams (1744):
“As reason tells us, all are born thus naturally equal, i.e. with an equal right to their person, also with an equal right to their perservation…and every man having a property in his own person, the labour of his body and the work of his hands are properly his own, to which no one has a right but himself; it will therefore follow that when he removes anything out of the state that nature has provided and left it in, he has mixed his labour with it, and joined something to it that is his own, and thereby makes it his property…Thus every man having a natural right to (or being proprietor of) his own person and his own actions and labour, which we call property, it certainly follows, that no man can have a right to the person or property of another: And if every man has a right to his person and peoperty, he also has a right to defend them…and so has a right of punishing all insults to his person and property.”

Notice that one of the first words in Rev. Williams’ statement is “reason”. He was a Congregational minister, but he didn’t write, “As God tells us…” or “As the Bible tells us…” He wrote, “As reason tells us…” All living things have a nature; it is why they are what they are. It is why the pine tree grows tall with spiney leaves and the tomato plant is short with red fruit. It is why fish spend their entire lives immersed in water, while human beings spend theirs immersed in air and drink water only occasionaly. All speciies have a specific nature. Only humans, however, have the ability to reason; all others behave according to the instincts of their nature.

I will be discussing some ot the points of Rev. Williams’ statement in subsequent posts. Your “homework” is to read that ststement and think: OK, if I have the ability to reason, is it true that I am equal to all other humans, in the sense of the basic rights stated by Rev. Williams. Let me know what you think.