Aquinas -Natural Law
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- Aquinas - Natural Law
- Types of LAW
- Eternal Law: The mind of God, which humans cannot know. It is the law which governs the universe.
- Will not lead us to perfection in this life, as it can only be achieved after death,
- Divine Law: Law of God revealed to us by the Bible. Christians call is "Word of God".
- NATURAL LAW: This is what directs are conscience, and if applied with reason, will lead to the right outcome.
- Human Law: Everyday rules which govern our society e.g. the legal system
- Eternal Law: The mind of God, which humans cannot know. It is the law which governs the universe.
- Ideas form Aristotle
- Efficient cause: Aquinas show God as the efficient cause, The power that brought everything into existence
- Final Cause: explains the nature of the will itself, to achieve Essence. 'Telos' fulfilled when does what God wants.
- ' good is to be done and pursued and evil is to be avoided'
- Precepts
- Worship God
- Set one day aside to pray for God (Sabbath)
- Ordered Society:
- The reason for police and government. Reason for Human LAW
- Repoduce
- Do not masterbate, it is a misuse of genatilia
- Do not have an abortion
- Learn
- Education is free
- Fahrenheit 9/11 - young men going to war instead of going into higher education
- Defend the innocent
- Do not commit sucide
- Do not allow ethanasia
- Worship God
- Goods
- Apparent Good
- Good which merely seems good; it satisfies a desire sufficiently to become an object of choice.
- It is not morally right, since it does not conform to the purpose of man as a whole.
- Real Good
- Real goods are in line with our telos, and help towards the Primary Precepts.
- Arrived through the use of reason by Natural Law
- Apparent Good
- Acts
- Interior: Concerned with the intention
- Good intentions do not always result in good actions.
- E,g if you help a friend with an abortion, Intentions may be good, but action is bad.
- Good intentions do not always result in good actions.
- Exterior: the act itself
- Deontological
- Interior: Concerned with the intention
- Doctrine of Double Effect:
- This doctrine says that if doing something morally good has a morally bad side-effect it's ethically OK to do it providing the bad side-effect wasn't intended.
- If the victim's intent is to save his or her own life and not to kill his or her attacker then self-defense, he reasoned, is justified and allowable
- REASON
- Aquinas championed the use of reason
- Allows us to reach the ultimate goal - a union with God.
- Aquinas championed the use of reason
- Types of LAW
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