Universal Law

In law and ethics, universal law or universal principle refers as concepts of legal legitimacy actions, whereby those principles and rules for governing human beings' conduct which are most universal in their acceptability, their applicability, translation, and philosophical basis, are therefore considered to be most legitimate.

There is this important universal law, that if follow closely can assist in resolving issues regarding human actions, though this universal law has ever remains unchanged, partial application without fully cognitive, this law has led to many failure in handling issues relating to humanity. This law is THE UNIVERSAL LAW OF HUMAN FUNCTIONALITY.

The universal law of human functionality holds that " HUMAN FUNCTIONALITY IS EQUAL TO ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND THE APPLICATION OF THE ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, IF OTHERS CONDITIONS REMAIN CONSTANT "(Herbert Asuquo 2022)

THIS implies that in every capacity of human functions, his actions and reactions which makes up his /her FUNCTIONALITY depends on the application of the ACQUIRED knowledge from what ever means or sources.

Therefore, in Tackling the issues of negative behaviour, actions and reactions, attacking the reasoning behind it, is more ideal than attacking the person. Doing so, will help preserve the life of humanity and combat with the external forces that tends to destroys humanity out of existence.

The universal law of human functionality should also save as a principle that drives global communities to sustainable development goals, if ''the educational institutions'' delligently apply this principle to assist in the development of students in all grades and levels of studies, to resonate and bringing to their focus the positive objectives of their studies and pointing to them, the relationship between increasing knowledge of their objectives studies goals and achieving the goals.

This can be done by consciously reminding the students that, their proper functionality in their desired field of endeavour, which will result in their contribution to the world communities at large and their satisfaction of being fulfilled in their field of endeavours, depends on the degree of their increase in the knowledge related to their fields of educational studies and constantly application of the ACQUIRED knowledge of their field of studies.

The universal law of human functionality vs global sustainable development

Understanding the relationship between knowledge application which is the observable action that will lead to various reactions, should assist us to, Understanding the key issues towards global sustainable development.

Debate

Cognition, experiences and intuition are the starting points of legal thought, which has to be seen through the glasses of universality and abstractness. Notwithstanding this assumption, "legal principles 1) do not contain only logic and reason and that 2) they can be different in different situations despite their equal naming. The legal rules can be identical in different legal orders while they carry different wants".

On one side "universality, abstraction, and theory itself are defined in a way that undermines the perspectives of some while privileging the perspectives of others"; on the other side, "the aspiration to universality itself may stand in the way of its realization if it seals off from view the bias built into legal norms, public practices, and established institutions".Martha Minow, ''Beyond Universality'', University of Chicago Legal Forum, Vol. 1989, pp. 137.

Examples

One type of Universal Law is the Law of Logic which prohibits logical contradictions known as sophistry. The Law of Logic is based upon the universal idea that logic is defined as that which is not illogical and that which is illogical is that which involves a logical contradiction, such as attempting to assert that an apple and no apple can exist at and in the same time and in the same place and attempting to assert that A and not-A can exist at and in the same time and in the same place.

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See also

* Natural law
* Universality (philosophy)

Ethics
Philosophy of law
Theories of law