Natural moral law
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- Created on: 19-01-20 14:42
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- Natural moral law
- Aquinas
- God is immutable (changeless)and therefore consistent
- God is absolutely good and the purpose of creation was to reflect the goodness
- Laws of nature reflect God's nature and regulate the created world
- Everything has a final cause (goal) and the final cause of humanity is eudaimonia
- Primary precepts
- Derived from the main guiding principle- "good is to be done and evil is to be avoided" POWER
- Ordered society
- Worship of God
- Education
- Reproduction
- Preservation of life
- Universally and absolutely binding
- Teleological- concerned with our final end
- Derived from the main guiding principle- "good is to be done and evil is to be avoided" POWER
- Secondary precepts
- Rules that show humans how to apply the primary precepts to specific situations
- eg contraception is wrong as it stops reproduction and doesn't preserve life
- Real and apparent goods
- Humans fall short of God's intentions for them
- This is because they confuse what they seems to be good with what is actually good
- Real good is reached through the practice of the virtues
- Humans fall short of God's intentions for them
- Cardinal virtues
- Selected from Aristotle
- Prudence
- Justice
- Fortitude (courage)
- Temperance (self control)
- Attained through human ability
- Added theological virtues
- Faith
- Hope
- Love
- Taken from 1 Corinthians 13, they are gifts of God's grace
- Principle of double effect
- Difficult and exceptional situations
- Four conditions
- Principle of the act= morality of the proposed action must be good or neutral
- Means-end= bad effect must not be the means by which the good effect is achieved
- Proportionality= good effect must be at least proportionate to the bad effect
- Good intention= intention must be the good effect, the bad can be foreseen but not intended
- Proportionalism
- The moral principle arising out of NML should be upheld unless there is proportionate reason no to do so
- No intrinsically evil acts
- Two things must be taken into account:
- Intention of moral agent
- Value of good effect against bad effect
- Aquinas
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