Natural Law
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- Created on: 16-10-17 10:07
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- Natural Law
- Aquinas
- 4 Tiers of Law
- Eternal Law - God's will for how the universe is to be
- Divine Law - That which is revealed by God, such as the 10 commandments.
- Natural Law - Right reason in accordance with human nature this can be worked out by considering what is good for human flourishing
- Human Law - As humans are social animals they need to make regulations for society to be orderly. Human laws must not contradict Natural Law
- Primary Precepts
- Preservation of life
- Ordering of Society
- Worship of God
- Education of children
- Reproduction
- Secondary Precepts
- From the ideas of the primary precepts we can derive the secondary precepts.
- For example abortion may be seen as wrong as it goes against the primary precepts of preservation of life and reproduction
- 4 Tiers of Law
- Ius and Lex
- Lex- Latin term from which we derive legislation refers to specific rule or regulation
- Ius- Latin term which refers to the general principle of law, not to specific regulations
- The Telos
- Things on earth seek to achieve their goal - their Telos
- Aquinas believed that we are only able to be fully what we should be - what god meant us to be
- For Aristotle our earthly goal is to flourish in a community he had no belief in personal survival after death
- John Finnis
- Strongly based on Aristotelian principles
- Basic Forms of Human Flourishing
- Pursuit of Good
- The relevance of consequences
- Followings ones conscience
- Coherent Plan of Life
- Objections
- Vagueness it does not enable us to be certain on what to do in significant cases
- Unclear Conclusion the issue of vagueness means it may be possible to construct arguments in opposing directions
- Un-Christian Theory some protestant thinkers have argued against natural law as ultimately unbiblical
- Acceptance if natural law is accessible to all one would expect more people to accept the teaching more widely
- A Purposive Universe
- Aquinas
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