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Natural Law
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Natural Law
Key terms:
Deontological - means duty, focusing on the intrinsic rightness and wrongness of an action
Telos - the end, or purpose of something
Natural law - a deontological theory based on behaviour that accords with given laws or moral rules
Synderesis - To follow the do good and avoid evil, the rule which all precepts follow
Primary Precepts - the most important to rules in life (Aquinas) : to protect life, to reproduce, to live in community, to teach the young and to love God
Secondary precepts - Precepts that follow the Primary Precepts
Eudamonia: living well , as an ultimate end in which all other actions should lead towards
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- A level Religious Studies (Ethics - Natural Law (1) ) Note on Natural Law , created by Freya Worley on 19/09/2017.
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