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Natural Moral Law A Level Edexcel

Natural Moral Law A Level Edexcel

Question 1 of 16

3

Tick the right answers that accurately describe the nature of NML.

Select one or more of the following:

  • NML is teleological

  • NML is absolutist and objective

  • NML is a branch of meta-ethics

  • NML is a branch of descriptive ethics

  • NML is a branch of normative ethics

  • NML is deontological

Explanation

Question 2 of 16

2

Who influenced Aquinas' NML?

Select one or more of the following:

  • Hume

  • Anselm

  • Aristotle

  • Plato

  • the Stoics

Explanation

Question 3 of 16

1

How many types of law are there in NML?

Select one of the following:

  • 5

  • 3

  • 4

  • 6

Explanation

Question 4 of 16

4

What are the types of law called? (extra: try to tick them in the right order if you can)

Select one or more of the following:

  • external law

  • human law

  • martial law

  • sharia law

  • divine law

  • ordained law

  • natural law

  • moral law

Explanation

Question 5 of 16

1

According to Aquinas, what is our purpose?

Select one of the following:

  • eudaimonia

  • summum bonum

  • perfection, like God

  • This is a trick question, Aquinas didn't believe we had a purpose.

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Question 6 of 16

1

According to Aquinas, the ability to reason is common to everyone.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 7 of 16

1

The Parable of the Talents explains that when God gives us something, whether mira (money), talent or the ability to reason, we must use it. Otherwise we are disobeying God and being selfish. (This applies to paragraphs about reason and how God has given us all the ability to reason).

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 8 of 16

5

Tick the correct Five Primary Precepts (extra: try to tick them in order)

Select one or more of the following:

  • Self-preservation

  • Education

  • Ordered Society

  • Reproduction

  • Worship God

Explanation

Question 9 of 16

1

What are the secondary precepts for?

Select one of the following:

  • They help us achieve the Primary Precepts

  • They help us achieve the summum bonum

  • They are five core ideas that we have to observe

Explanation

Question 10 of 16

2

There are two subordinate aims that help us achieve and understand the secondary precepts. Tick the two correct subordinate aims.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Reason

  • Purpose

  • Reason and the Bible

  • the Bible alone

  • Prayer

Explanation

Question 11 of 16

1

The Fall (Genesis 2-3) demonstrates what happens when we disobey God, just like Adam and Eve. The Fall also explains why humans have original sin and thus why our reason is tainted by evil.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 12 of 16

1

Apparent goods are when we reason correctly and veer towards God.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 13 of 16

1

Real goods are when we reason correctly and veer towards God.

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

Explanation

Question 14 of 16

1

What does Paul say about evil in Romans?

Select one of the following:

  • Humans are evil

  • Humans are not evil

  • Bird are evil

Explanation

Question 15 of 16

4

Tick four criticisms of NML.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Vardy says that NML "fails to consider the person as a psycho-physical unity" and is too simplistic to use for complex, individual moral dilemmas.

  • NML's objective set of rules has more clarity than Bentham's Act Utilitarianism.

  • Hume argues that there could be more than one God or perhaps an evil God.

  • Barth argues that "There is not enough consideration on the grace of God and Revelation in the Bible" and human nature is too corrupt to be trusted. Thus NML is not reliable or applicable since our reason is corrupt and tainted due to original sin.

  • Moore states that NML commits the naturalistic fallacy.

  • Scientists would state that there is no purpose in our world. For example, quantum physics highlights the randomness of our world and the lack of order and purpose. Even if there was purpose, it would not be as simple as the Primary Precepts.

Explanation

Question 16 of 16

4

Tick four strengths of NML.

Select one or more of the following:

  • Hoose's Proportionalism as a development of NML with more flexibility

  • Longford comments that since the secondary precepts are open to interpretation, "it is here that the flexibility of natural law occurs"

  • Society has now moved towards social contract theory

  • Barclay argues that society requires laws and rules in order to avoid chaotic anarchy. NML provides objective rules to follow.

  • NML's objectivity and absolutism provides cohesive clarity in moral decision-making, unlike Bentham's confusing hedonic calculus or Fletcher's subjective agape love.

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