... to exercise major impacts on the natural environment at both the local and even the global level. Prior to the modern period, nature served as a fundamental touchstone for ethics. From Aristotle through Cicero to Thomas Aquinas, natural law ethics presented the ultimate human good as harmony with the whole, of which the human is no more than a part. However, the fundamental ... path in social development at the same time it closes off many alternatives. The difference is that brute force is admitted as playing a major role in the political realm, allowing politics to be regularly subjec...

• Word Count: 6015
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... to exercise major impacts on the natural environment at both the local and even the global level. Prior to the modern period, nature served as a fundamental touchstone for ethics. From Aristotle through Cicero to Thomas Aquinas, natural law ethics presented the ultimate human good as harmony with the whole, of which the human is no more than a part. However, the fundamental ... path in social development at the same time it closes off many alternatives. The difference is that brute force is admitted as playing a major role in the political realm, allowing politics to be regularly subjec...

• Word Count: 6015
• Approx Pages: 24
• Grade Level: Undergraduate