Natural Law Quotes

Question 1

Reason
Aristotle-Nicomacheon Ethics

Answer 1

“Reason is the true self of every man, since it is the supreme and better part… Reason is, in the highest sense, a mans self”

Question 2

Eudaimonia
Aristotle

Answer 2

“Eudaimonia is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”

Question 3

Morality
Aristotle

Answer 3

“The moral life is the life according to reason”

Question 4

Natural Law first appearance
Cicero

Answer 4

“True law is the right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application. Unchanging and everlasting…”

Question 5

Absolute law
Aquinas

Answer 5

“Natural law is the same for all men… there is a single standard of truth and right for everyone which is known by everyone”

Question 6

Natural Law definition
Buckle

Answer 6

“The idea of Natural Law is sometimes described as the view that there is an unchanging, normative order that is part of the natural world”

Question 7

Innate nature of law
St Paul

Answer 7

“The requirements of the law are written on the hearts, their conscious also bear witness”

Question 8

Definition of law
Aquinas

Answer 8

“A certain rule and measure of acts whereby man is induced to act or is refrained from acting”

Question 9

Eternal Law

Answer 9

“God has in His intellect an idea by which he governs the world. This idea in God for governance of things is eternal law”

Question 10

Divine Law
Bowie

Answer 10

“Natural law directs people to their final destination. It is an divine law, Gods law”

Question 11

Human Law
Martin Luther King

Answer 11

“An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law”

Question 12

Synderesis Rule
Aquinas

Answer 12

“Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided”

Question 13

Primary Precepts
Heber J Grant

Answer 13

the precepts “pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence”

Question 14

Interior and Exterior Acts
Matthew 6.5

Answer 14

“And when ypu pray… pray to your father in secret; and your father which sees you in secret shall reward you openly”

Question 15

Real Goods
Bowie

Answer 15

“Exterior goods alone are not enough to create a harmonious and cohesive society”

Question 16

Virtues
St Paulin corinthians 13.13

Answer 16

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

Question 17

Faith
Aquinas

Answer 17

“An act of intellect which assents to the divine truth at the command of will, moved by gods grace”

Question 18

Faith and Hope
Aquinas

Answer 18

“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand”

Question 19

Definition of Faith
Aquinas

Answer 19

“a habit of mind, whereby eternal life is begun in us, making the intellect assent to which is not apparent”

Question 20

Hope
Aquinas

Answer 20

“The things that we love tell us what we are”

Question 21

Love (charity)

Answer 21

“Love is patient, love if kind”

Question 22

Theological Virtues
Aquinas

Answer 22

“by which we live righteously, of which no one can make bad use, which God works in us, without us”

Question 23

Cardinal Virtues
Plato

Answer 23

“Knowledge becomes evil is the aim be not virtuous”

Question 24

Prudence
Aristotle

Answer 24

“right reason applied to practice”

Question 25

Temperance Mark

Answer 25

"The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak"

Question 26

Justice definition John A. Hardon

Answer 26

"Habitual inclination of the will"

Question 27

Strength-Status of Humans Cole and Grey

Answer 27

"Being human means acting in line with our true nature, when we follow our natural inclinations"

Question 28

Strength-Justice John Hardon

Answer 28

"the constant and permanent determination to give everyone his or her rightful due"

Question 29

Strength-Clear base of morality Bowie

Answer 29

"It gives clear unambiguous answers to moral questions in time of moral uncertainty"

Question 30

Virtues Golden Rule

Answer 30

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you"

Question 31

Strength-Basis of morality Pope Benedict

Answer 31

"Christianity has pointed nature and reason as the true sources of law... both spheres are rooted in the creative reason of god"

Question 32

Strength-Critisism of relativist theories Pope

Answer 32

"moving towards a dictatorship of relativism"

Question 33

Strength-not subjective or tied to emotions Mel Thompson

Answer 33

"Feeling can change, but the issue of right and wrong remains fixed"

Question 34

Strength-Telos Joe Jenkins

Answer 34

"each person is born with a particular puropse to fulfil... and human natyure was created by God"

Question 35

Weakness-naturalistic fallacy Patrick J Clarke

Answer 35

"If mankind has no religious destiny, it could be argued that the idea of following a natural law ethic ultimately makes no sense"

Question 36

Weakness- out-dated James Rachel

Answer 36

"Natural Law has gone out of fashion... the world as described by Galileo, Newton and Darwin has no place for 'facts' about right or wrong"

Question 37

Weakness- nothing is intrinsically right or wrong

Answer 37

"The sabbath was made for the good of human beings, they were not made for the sabbath"

Question 38

Against Abortion Donim Vitae 1987

Answer 38

"If embryos are living, whether viable or not, they must be respected just like any other human person"

Question 39

Supporting Abortion Hope

Answer 39

"When suffering is the result of following an ethical principle, then we need to look very carefully at our ethical principles and ask whether we are applying it too inflexibly"

Question 40

Against Abortion and Euthanasia- Sanctity of life

Answer 40

"God alone is the lord of life from ite beginning until its end"

Question 41

Against Abortion- telos Psalms

Answer 41

"Children are a gift from the Lord, a child is a reqard drom Him"

Question 42

Supporting Euthanasia Hariss

Answer 42

"Natural law theory is inherently hostile to utilitarian arguments, and this is seen to full effect in assertion that there is a slippery slope that must be avoided at all costs"

Question 43

Against Euthanasia- Look after your body

Answer 43

"Do you not know that our body is a temple of the holy spirit, who is in you, whom you have recieved from god?... honour god with your body"