Primary precepts Natural Moral Law
- Created by: _bella_
- Created on: 25-01-19 14:41
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- Primary Precepts+ Secondary Precepts
- The
Preservation of
Life
- No abortion
- Advancing Knowledge and Learning
- Go to school and educate yourself
- Interior Acts
- Acts which intentions are selfish: such as giving to charity for fame
- The
Worship of God
- Pray and go to church
- Human Procreation
- No contraception used
- Living Peacefully and Harmoniously
- Establish Justice
- Exterior Acts
- Acts done; such as giving to a charity
- Eudamonia
- Using the PP means we can follow the secondary precepts, this results in human flourishing
- The telos for Aristotle was a fulfilled happy life
- Aquinas developed this as he believed God was the most perfect + fulfilling telos
- "Our ultimate end is unrelated good, namely God, who alone can fill our will to the brim because of infinite goodness.”
- Secondary Precepts
- Applying PP to real life situatins
- We use our reason to apply the precepts
- Can change by ‘addition’ when we add something eg abortion is wrong except to save a mother’s life
- Synderesis
- We can't sin deliberatley
- We are born w/ an innate sense of what is good
- We can use our reason (God-given) to understand and use the design imprinted naturally
- The
Preservation of
Life
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