natural law
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- Created on: 13-04-14 21:31
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- Natural law
- Aristotle
- originally founded by Aristotle
- distinguished between the efficient cause and the final cause
- efficient cause=gets things done eg in terms childs growth food an drink
- final cause= end product eg in terms of child growth growing into an adult
- if we know the final cause then we know how to achieve it
- purpose of humans= eudimonia (happiness)
- idea of good is a happy society where individuals and groups work for their own good in relation to everybody else
- brings order in a state of flux
- teleological things move in a way to get an end product
- Aquinas
- god is a creator
- changeless and consistent
- deontological considers a moral act itself not the consequences
- everything has a proper end
- humans given freedom and reason
- we can choose whether to follow our proper end or not
- primary precepts; preservation of life, live in society, worship god, education and repoduction
- allows secondary precepts to go about getting eudimonia in your own way
- doctrine of double effect if a good action has bad consequences
- simple and clear approach
- the primary precepts are common to all societies
- it allows humans to use reason to work out how to live
- secondary precepts allow flexibility
- sees human nature as fixed and that isnt the case
- doesnt take account of the fall instead has an optimistic view of society
- doesnt cope with indivudual problems as it is interpreted too rigidly
- Aristotle
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