Natural Law
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- Created on: 13-01-18 14:12
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- Natural Law
- Telos/Ultimate end
- Aquinas believed that the purpose of humans was to reach Eudaimonia or the highest faculty
- Aquinas developed the ides from Aristotle's prime mover
- Aquinas concluded that the ultimate end cannot be found i this world but only in the supreme and infinte God
- He stated that divine help is needed to direct or motivations as well as our actions
- Aquinas believed that the purpose of humans was to reach Eudaimonia or the highest faculty
- The four tiers of law
- Eternal law
- Is the absolute and eternal part of natural law
- mind of God and unchanging
- Is the absolute and eternal part of natural law
- Divine law
- God sends out information about the eternal law through the divine law
- commands and teachings - sacred scripture
- God sends out information about the eternal law through the divine law
- Natural law
- It is possible for all humans to perceive God's eternal law through human reason
- marks humans from animals and Eternal law is accessible to the whole of humanity
- It is possible for all humans to perceive God's eternal law through human reason
- Human law
- Our response to the messages of God in reason and revelation
- Human laws are the customs and practises of society. Human law is only good if it is in accordance with divine and natural law
- Our response to the messages of God in reason and revelation
- Eternal law
- The precepts
- Primary
- Reproduction
- To learn and educate
- To defend the innocent
- To learn and educate
- Reproduction
- Secondary
- Deduced from primary precepts and applications of the precepts
- Secondary precepts vary as they are based on the application of primary precepts
- Deduced from primary precepts and applications of the precepts
- Primary
- Real and apparent goods
- Actions may appear to be good, but in actual fact they're not
- Synderesis rule - do good and avoid evil
- Humans should develop the virtues to keep the natural law
- Synderesis rule - do good and avoid evil
- Interior and exterior acts
- A morally good action must be both intrinsically and extrinsically good
- Actions may appear to be good, but in actual fact they're not
- The doctrine of double effect
- Interior and exterior acts
- A morally good action must be both intrinsically and extrinsically good
- An action may have two outcomes or effects
- If the good outcome is the intended effect then the act is justified
- Interior and exterior acts
- Telos/Ultimate end
- Synderesis rule - do good and avoid evil
- Humans should develop the virtues to keep the natural law
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