religion test review

Be able to explore and explain Aquinas' understanding of natural law

. On Aquinas’s view, a law is “a rule or measure of human acts, whereby a person is induced to act or is restrained from acting”

describes a law as a “dictate of practical reason emanating from a ruler”

every law is ultimately derived from what he calls the eternal law

The “eternal law” refers to God’s providential ordering of all created things to their proper end.

“it is this participation in the eternal law by the rational creature that is called the natural law”

Kant

the Good is the aim of a moral life

3 areas of interest-

God, kant pruposes the existence of God to allow us to achieve the supreme good,

Freedom, to have the duty to do something we must be able to do it, therefor Kant argues that humans by nature are free

immorality. acheiving the supreme good is an immense task.

ethics is more individual

Most precious possesion above anything else is good will. it is our duty

a human action is morally good when it is done for the sake of duty.

moral worth is measured by the motive behind ones actions

Maxim

every rational person would necessarily act if reason were fully in charge of his or her actions

Emmanuel Levinas

everything ultimatly carried a stamp of sameness... Westeners,he said, think out of a unified totality

It thinks away differences... Differences, is reduced to being accidental

philosophy as a whole is ethical, in search of the good

went in search for the good which he says goes beyond being

calls unique things and persons ''traces'' of the Good or God

encounter God anywhere but only traces

goes to the experience of the face

the persons face is a ''no'' he translates it as '' you should not murder'' ... you are not to take the otherness away

face becomes ethical

recognizing the others depth of misery or humility is what makes the command or appeal of the face ethical.

it is the other that awakens to the highest good.

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