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The Natural-Law Theory

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The Natural-Law Theory holds that right conduct accords with human nature's built-in purposes, which reason can read from the world.

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Aquinas's line: the eye is for seeing, speech is for truth — so deception misuses speech. Purposes built into nature set the moral standard.