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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