Ethics- Natural Moral Law

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  • Created on: 23-05-17 19:12
What is Natural Moral Law?
Natural law refers to the moral law of God that has been built in to human nature, deontological= there are moral absolutes which are written in to the very fabric of nature, natural laws are universal and unchangable, used to judge law of societies
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What is the role of purpose and reason?
Everything has a purpose and we can achieve eudaimonia when we reach it, if we use our reason to work out the correct course of action but fail to perform that act we are being irrational
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Why does evil occur?
we always try to act in a way to do good and avoid evil, we are designed for perfection so wouldnt knowlingly pursue evil, people do evil as they fail to use reason correctly so we pursue apparent goods
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How is God involved in natural moral law?
The ultimate interior motive is giving glory to God, to adhere to Natural law we need to seek to develop the virtues of faith, hope and charity
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What are Interior acts and exterior acts?
Interior acts= the intention, exterior acts= the act itself, actions are only truly good if hey are good in both interior and exterior terms
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What are primary and secondary precepts?
Secondary precepts= moral commands that must be followed to ensure primary precepts. we use reason to figure this out, Primary precepts= come after secondary precepts, fundamental goods that human beings are inclined to
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What are some examples of Primary precepts?
Preservation of life (no abortion, healthcare) Reproduction (no homosexuality, marriage), Nurture and education (school, education of teachers)
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What is the Doctorine of double effect?
If we cannot do good without a bad consequence we have a moral dialemma, it is always wrong to do a bad act intentially for a good consequence, sometimes acceptable to do a good act despite of a bad consequence
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What is causitry? what is final and efficent cause?
Causitry=natural law applied to specific situations, a truly good act would have its final and efficent act in compliance with the natural law of God
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What are the strengths of Natural Moral law?
provides clear moral foundations, focuses on reason rather than emotion, univerally applicable, not materialistic,emphasisies value of human life, offers reason to be moral, emphasises social harmony,gives us rules as predicting outcomes is unreliabl
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What are the weaknesses to Natural Moral Law?
Jesus opposes legalistic morality in New Testement, Divine law conflicts with moral law,hard to relate it to complex decisions,relies too much on reason not grace,inflexible, doesnt account for emotions,lack of tolerence, science shows no purpose
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