Natural Law
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- Created on: 23-02-13 18:04
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- Natural Moral Law
- What is Natural Moral law
- Natural order should be followed.
- Is determined by supernatural power
- Based on human reason
- Origins of natural law
- Aristotle considered everything has a purpose
- Meaning of purpose
- Aristotle considered everything has a purpose
- Laws
- Eternal Law
- The principles by which God made and controls the universe which are only fully known by God
- Divine Law
- The Bible - this reflects the eternal law
- Natural law
- The theory that an eternal absolute moral law can be discovered by reason
- Eternal Law
- Natural inclinations
- Precepts -laws
- Apparent good
- Something which seems to be good or right thing to do but which does not fit the perfect human ideal
- Real good
- The right thing to do -fits human ideal
- Primary precepts
- Always true and appplying to everybody without exception
- Secondary precepts
- dependent on our own judgements
- strengths
- clear cut
- reason on human feelings
- clear cut
- Weakness
- hard to relate to complex decisions
- What is Natural Moral law
- The idea that the righ or wrong of an action can be discovered by looking at whether the action agrees with human purpose
- Meaning of purpose
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