NATURAL LAW - keywords
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- Created on: 17-02-14 15:21
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- NATURAL LAW
- purpose
- The idea that the rightness or wrongness of an act can be discovered by looking at whether or not the action agrees with human purpose
- primary precepts
- The fundamental principles of Natural Moral Law
- natural law
- the theory that an eternal, absolute moral law can be discovered by reason
- intrinsically good
- Something which is good in itself, without reference to the consequences
- eternal law
- the principles by which good in itself, without reference to the consequences
- deontological ethics
- an ethic which believes what is inherently right or wrong pays no regard to consequences
- divine law
- The Bible - this reflects the Eternal Law
- apparent good
- Something which seems to be good or the right thing to do but which does not fit the human ideal - flawed reasoning
- absolutism
- An objective moral rule that is always true in all situations and for everyone without exception
- real good
- The right thing to do it - it fits the human ideal
- secondary precepts
- These are worked out from the primary precepts
- purpose
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