Normative Ethics
- Created by: sophie_beckk
- Created on: 13-11-17 19:31
View mindmap
- Normative Ethics
- Split into 2 types of ethical theories
- Teleological - Comes from the Greek words 'telos' meaning 'ending'
- In ethics, refers to views of ethics where the emphasis is on the goal or purpose that an ethical approach is intended to achieve.
- Deontological - Comes from the Greek words 'Dei' meaning 'duty' or 'obligation'
- The approach to ethics in which the rightness or wrongness of an act is judged by its conformity to duties, rules and obligations
- This type of ethical theory is concerned with the action,not the consequence.
- Teleological - Comes from the Greek words 'telos' meaning 'ending'
- Natural Moral Law - St.Thomas Aquinas
- The 'four-fold' divisions of the law
- 1. Eternal Law - God
- 2. Divine Law - Bible
- 3. Natural Moral Law - Human nature
- 4. Human Law - Laws e.g EU Laws
- 3. Natural Moral Law - Human nature
- 2. Divine Law - Bible
- 1. Eternal Law - God
- 5 Primary precepts
- 1. To preserve life
- 2. To reproduce
- 3. To educate
- 4. To keep order in society
- 5. To steer from evil and do good, whilst worshipping God
- 4. To keep order in society
- 3. To educate
- 2. To reproduce
- These primary precepts are fundamental principals revealed to us by God
- 1. To preserve life
- Secondary precepts (these hold up/support the primary precepts)
- The secondary precepts are the rules which bring us closer to achieving the primary precepts
- e.g 'keep order in society' would be upheld by the secondary precept of ' consensual sex outside marriage is wrong' e.g adultery
- The secondary precepts are the rules which bring us closer to achieving the primary precepts
- Aquinas also noted that God knows the secrets of our hearts and so our actions must be interior rather than exterior - the motive behind an action counts.
- The 'four-fold' divisions of the law
- Split into 2 types of ethical theories
Similar Ethics resources:
Teacher recommended
Comments
No comments have yet been made