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Natural Law
- Aristotle
- 'The natural' doesn't depend on
grading in society or birth.
- 'The natural ' is something
which is everywhere
- It is valid everywhere to everyone at all times
- You don't need to be intellectual to
understand or receive 'the natural'
- It is forever and eternal
- 'The natural' does not change with
age or time and it's like your soul is
always with her.
- Ultimate goal- Eudamonia
- 4 causes
- Reason
- 'The natural' doesn't depend on
grading in society or birth.
- Aquinas
- Believed that the final cause is what
God intended it to do.
- The efficient cause is God - who
brought the world into existence
- Did not see this as a
threat to Christianity
- Linked the Stoics idea of Universal Natural Law
to Aristotle's view that people have a purpose
and function.
- Stoics
- Believed that the universe has a basic
design and purpose which within it the
human morality should work in harmony
with
- Believed that the universe has a basic
design and purpose which within it the
human morality should work in harmony
with
- Aquinas developed the NL
theory, using ideas from the
Stoics and Aristotle
- Stoics
- Real/Apparent Goods
- Aquinas believed that everyone has the sense of Natural Law
within themselves, which inclines them towards perfection
- Aquinas believed that everyone has the sense of Natural Law
within themselves, which inclines them towards perfection
- Five Precepts
- Preservation of Life
- Do not commit suicide and
do not switch off life-support
machines
- Do not commit suicide and
do not switch off life-support
machines
- Educating the Young
- Education is free and make
schooling compulsory
- Education is free and make
schooling compulsory
- Living in a Society
- Build more homes and
encourage community activities
- Build more homes and
encourage community activities
- Worshipping God
- Set one day aside for a week for
worship and hold school assemblies
- Set one day aside for a week for
worship and hold school assemblies
- Reproduction
- Permit IVF and surrogacy whilst
contraception is wrong
- Permit IVF and surrogacy whilst
contraception is wrong
- To concentrate on NL you have to have
a civilised society which is free to
survive and flourish and these precepts
are essential
- Secondary Precepts
- Preservation of Life
- Ultimate goal is perfection which can't
be achieved in this life.
- Interior/Exterior Acts
- We are created by God
- Double Effect
- Causitry
- Believed that the final cause is what
God intended it to do.
- 4 Laws
- Bible
- Church
- You
- Precepts
- Bible
- Finnis
- 7 Basic goods
- Substantive
- Human life
- Knowledge and Aesthetic appreciation
- Play/Skilled performance
- Human life
- Reflexive
- Self intergration
- Authenticity/Practical reasonableness
- Justice/Friendship
- Religion
- Self intergration
- Substantive
- 9 principles of practical reasonableness
- Developed Aquinas' NL
theory to make it secular
- 7 Basic goods
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