Natural Law
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- Created on: 07-01-13 12:40
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- Natural Law
- Aquinas
- Humans made in Gods image
- Real and Apparent Good
- Apparent good- some that seems good, or right thing to do but doesn't ft the perfect human ideal
- Use our reasoning to distinguish between them
- Real Good- right thing to do, fits with human ideal
- Use our reasoning to distinguish between them
- Apparent good- some that seems good, or right thing to do but doesn't ft the perfect human ideal
- Telos
- Everything has a function and a purpose and should achieve its purpose
- Every human has same purpose and aim
- Primary Precepts
- Preservation of life
- Reproduction
- To educate and learn
- Bring order to society
- To worship God
- God given inclinations (divine spark) which will lead to highest good
- Used to achieve good and avoid evil
- Abosolute
- Secondary Precepts
- Derived from primary precepts
- More teleological as dependant on human judgement and reasoning
- Require experience and reason
- allows us to set up practical rules
- Doctrine of double effect
- Some cases cant do good without bad consquences
- Bad act to bring good consequence can never be justified
- Justify a good act eveen if it will have and unintended bad consequences
- Bad consequence may be foreseen but not intemded
- Laws
- Eternal law
- God controls universe. Known entirely by God, we can only have partial understanding of it.
- Divine Law
- Told though Bible, mirrors Eternal Law. Only revealed to Christians.
- Natural Law
- Moral law can be discovered and accessed by everyone, uses reason and logic
- Human law
- Everyday rules we must follow (eg. legal system)
- Eternal law
- Deontological
- Absolute
- Origins
- Aristotle
- Everything has a purpose, a telos
- For humans our telos is eudaimonia- hapiness
- Everything has a purpose, a telos
- Stoics
- Believed in a God given divine spark
- Aristotle
- Underpins the ethics of Catholic Church
- Aquinas
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