Natural Law
- Created by: emily tombs
- Created on: 09-04-14 19:09
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- Natural Moral Law
- Absolute
- Moral command that is true for everyone, all the time in all situations
- Relativist
- Subjective - moral rules are expressions of culture
- Deontological
- Actions are right/wrong regardless of the consequences
- Aristotle
- Natural justice is absolute, regardless of laws
- Supreme good for humans is eudemonia
- Strive for perfection to be like God
- Aquinas alternative
- Believed God represented the goal that all humans should strive to attain
- "God is good" is a tautology
- Sin is falling short of the good
- Seek apparent good instead of real good
- Interior: why you do it - reasoned but never willed
- Exterior: what you do - reasoned and willed to happen
- Seek apparent good instead of real good
- Criticisms
- Can't relate complex decisions to basic principles
- Based on assumptions about the world - questioned by science
- People have changable natures so NML is too complex (Neilsen)
- Relies too much on reason (Berth)
- Basic living principles are common in all cultures - reasonable
- All morally good things require happiness
- Establishes moral rules
- Absolute
- Seek apparent good instead of real good
- Interior: why you do it - reasoned but never willed
- Exterior: what you do - reasoned and willed to happen
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