natural law
- Created by: B.S
- Created on: 09-05-14 19:01
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- Natural Law
- Context of the argument.
- Deontological
- Based on Aristotle's teleological philosophy
- Moving towards fulfilling our final cause.
- Aquinas
- Reason
- Everything has a reason for existing
- Human reason given by god is starting point of morality
- Eudaimonia is natural purpose of humans and creation
- syderesis rule - we naturally do good and avoid evil
- Reason
- Precepts
- Primary precepts
- Preservation of life
- reproduction
- educating the young
- live in society
- worship God
- Primary precepts
- Strengths and weaknesses
- Strenghs
- simple and clear cut approach to morality
- precepts can be applied to all societys
- allows human reasoning
- secondary precepts allow flexibility
- Weaknesses
- sees nature as fixedwhen evidence suggest otherwise
- can be critised using Naturalistic Fallacy
- doesn't take into account the fall
- can be interpreted too ridigly and therefore cant cope with individual moral problems
- Strenghs
- Context of the argument.
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