Natural Law - created from Mind Map

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Background Info

Aquinas' four tiers of law

Aquinas' teaching influences the Catholic Church

Natural law theory is absolutist and deontological so it's not to do with the situation or the outcome

Natural law's teaching and Aquinas' original teachings are different

Eternal Law

Divine Law

Natural Law

Human Law

God's will for how the universe is to be. God could have made the universe differently but willed that it and its occupants are of this type.

"law is nothing but a certain dictate of practical reason in the leader who governs any perfect community

That which is revealed by God like the Ten Commandments.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven"

What is essentially good for human flourishing

"Do good and avoid evil"

Regulations for society to be orderly so that people may florish

"Human law has the quality of law insofar as it is according to right reason: and accordingly it is clear that it flows from an Eternal Law"

Man is bound to obey secular rulers to the extent that the order of justice requires"