Natural Law key information
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- Natural Law
- Four tiers of law
- natural law- laws we see through nature
- human law- laws of societies
- eternal law- god's ultimate law
- Divine law- the things that god reveals to us
- 5 primary precepts
- preservation of life
- reproduction
- education
- worship of god
- ordering of society
- secondary precepts are the human laws made to prevent these things happening
- Synderesis Aquinas
- do good and avoid evil
- Telos
- end point or purpose
- everything has a purpose or a telos and we can see this in nature
- Aristotle- Eudimonia (flourishing in society)
- Aquinas- reuniting with God
- Double effect
- “an act may
have one effect, and be known to
have more than one”
- the act must not be intrinsically evil
- the evil and good must be at least equal
- the intention must be good
- there must be a strict reason to allow a bad effect
- “an act may
have one effect, and be known to
have more than one”
- Four tiers of law
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