Natural Law
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- Created on: 31-03-15 10:52
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- Natural Law
- Primary Precepts
- Worship God
- Preservation of life
- Ordered society
- Education of the young
- Reproduce
- Secondary Precepts
- These come from the primary precepts
- We have to use reason to make rules
- E.g. 'Do not murder' as this breaks the primary precept of 'preservation of life'
- Real and apparent goods
- No one does evil acts on purpose
- We reason wrongly thinking we're doing good (apparent good)
- Natural law
- The theory that a natural moral law can be discovered by reason
- Divine law
- The Bible - reflect the eternal law but is only seen by those who believe in God
- Eternal law
- Gods plan for everyone and the way in which he governs the universe.
- Only known by God
- Interior and exterior acts
- Interior acts- the intention or motive
- Exterior acts- the act itself
- Both should be good for the act to be good
- The theory is...
- Deontological
- Based on the action not the consequences
- From the Stoics- believed we had a divine spark
- Deontological
- Doctrine of double effect
- Good things can have bad consequences
- Primary Precepts
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