Thursday, 11 May 2017

Thought 541: The Duplicity of Natural Law


Natural Law, i.e. the set of consequences
that attends and governs our conduct,
is both descriptive and prescriptive,
because the observation of
 the negative consequences that
attend bad conduct leads to the
prescriptive injunction not to
indulge in such conduct.

Ultimately speaking,
Natural Law is a revenge
philosophy against those
who would enslave others
for the sake of their will
to exert: it posits a true
moral world as opposed
to the false immoral world
that is the case so that slaves
can feel justified in their rebellion.

Problem: the will to morality
of Natural Law is itself immoral,
that is, it is the same will to exert
as immorality; in short, morality
isn't moral—it is the same exertion
it pretends to fight against.