Natural Law

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What is Deontological?
Latin for 'duty', ethics focused on 'the intrinsic rightness and wrongness of actions'
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What is Telos?
The end or purpose of something
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What is Natural law?
A deontological theory based on behaviour that accords with given laws or moral rules that exist independently of human societies and systems
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What is Synderesis?
To follow the good and avoid the evil, the rule which all precepts follow
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What are Primary precepts?
The most important rules in life, to protect life, to reproduce, to live in a community, to teach the young and to believe in God
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What are Secondary precepts?
The laws which follow from the primary precepts
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What is a Practical reason?
The tool which makes moral decisions
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What is Eudamonia?
Living well, as an ultimate end in life which all other actions should lead towards
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