Natural Moral Law

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  • Natural Moral Law
    • Deontological theory
      • ''Deo" Greek word meaning ''duty'' or ''obligation''
    • Primary Precepts
      • 1. Preserve life
        • 2. Educate
          • 3. Keep order
            • 4. Reproduce
              • 5. Believe in God
      • These primary precepts are fundamental principals revealed to us by God
    • Secondary Precepts
      • The secondary precepts are the rules which bring us closer to achieving these, like "do not murder".
    • 7 deadly sins
      • 1. Gluttony
        • 2. Lust
          • 3. Avarice
            • 4. Pride
              • 5. Wrath
                • 6. Sloth
                  • 7. Vainglory
      • St. Thomas Aquinas said that these 7 sins are what lead you away from the primary precepts and a moral life
    • Proportionalism and double effect
      • Proportionalism is an ethical theory that lies between consequential theories and deontological theories. This is what lies between situation ethics and Natural moral law.
      • 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.
    • Advantages and disadvantages
      • Advantage - There is a fair set of rules for everyone, however, it is not just a large number of rules dictating what we should do.
      • Advantage - It allows us to use our reason and so feel in control of the secondary precepts.
      • Disadvantage - In modern forms Natural Law does not allow for negotiation because the Church has made the secondary preceptsinto absolute rules.
      • Disadvantage - It could be argued that we have gained our natural instincts through evolution, not through God and so we do not need a God-based theory.

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