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Natural Moral Law Flashcards

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What is deontological ?

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The moral worth of the action as apposed to the consequences of what you do
-rights are considered
-action centred

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What is Teleological ?

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The aim is to achieve the best consequence in a situation
-overall goal

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What is eternal law ?

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God is the creator ,all things come from him
-a clear,universal sense if right and wrong

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What is divine law ?

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Objective principles e.g. the bible/church

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What is Natural moral law ?

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Human reasoning
-not through revelation

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What is human law ?

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By understanding NML we can formulate human laws e.g legal systems

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What is the synderesis rule ?

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“Good is to be done and perused and evil is to be avoided”

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State the primary precepts (WORLD) and what are they useful

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Worship god
Ordered society
Reproduce
Learning
Defend life

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State the secondary precepts and why they are useful

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What is the beatific vision ?

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The ultimate,direst self communication of god to humanity

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What is a telos?

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-our telos is happiness this happens through an ordered rule based society
The telos of humanity is the ‘beatific vision’
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What is real good?

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Real good is actual good

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What is apparent good?

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Apparent good is something that may feel good but it is not

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What are interior acts?

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What are exterior acts?

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What is The first principle of the double effect?

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The nature of the act-must be morally good of neutral

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What is Second principal of the double effect?

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The means-end condition-bad effects must not be the way the good effect is achieved

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What is The third principal of the double effect?

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The right intentions-the intention must only be to achieve a good effect ;the bad effect must be an unintended side effect

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What is The fourth principle of the double effect ?

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The proportionality condition-the good effect must be at least equivalent to the bad effect

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What are the Strengths of natural moral law?

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-Almost completely universal
-encouraged people to avoid evil and do good (syneresis)
-puts biblical messages into practice
-the laws of NML are applicable to most moral dilemmas

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What are the weaknesses of NML?

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-subjective =relies on revelation
-not everyone follows the syderesis rule
-interpretation =not everyone has the same nature,what is right for one may not be right for the other
-people have different ability of reasoning

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Who developed natural moral law

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Aristotle
Then Aquinas developed the system of NML from Aristotle

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