Natural Law - Weaknesses
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- Created on: 19-04-15 18:58
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- Natural Law - Weaknesses
- Based on the idea that nature is good
- not everything in nature is good e.g illness, natural disasters
- Assumes all people seek to worship God
- Atheists may find it difficult to accept Natural Law as an ethical theory
- States reproduction is a key aim of humanity
- causes issues with homosexuals or infertile people
- Assumes God created the universe and everything
- if God didn't create the world, then NL has no basis
- Aquinas commits naturalistic fallacy
- he says moral law comes from God so we must obey it (a value judgement)
- Does not allow for evolution or devine redemption through Christ
- suggested that human nature has remained the same since creation
- Based on the idea that nature is good
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