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Mind Map by Simran Nagra, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Simran Nagra
over 10 years ago
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Natural Law
- everything has a purpose
- primary precepts
- "good is to be done and
pursued and evil is to be
avoided"
- leads to the
secondary
precepts
- PREGS
- protect and preserve human life
- reporduce
- educate offspring
- love God
- Live in society
- protect and preserve human life
- "good is to be done and
pursued and evil is to be
avoided"
- primary precepts
- Thomas Aquinas
- 13th century
- summa
theologica- fulfil
purpose of good
- 13th century
- Absolutist &
deontological
- primary precepts are self-evident principles
- Primary Precepts are
not concerned with
actions themselves, but
with our telos or
purpose.
- . For Aquinas, man's final
purpose (telos) is happiness
with God, something
for which we all have an innate
desire. The Primary Precepts
are our natural inclinations that
guide us towards this final
purpose.
- secondary precepts; these
are rules that govern our
specific actions. The
secondary precepts are what
makes Natural Law appear
deontological.
- secondary precpts
- certain actions were seen by
Aquinas to be contrary to
human nature. Reason would
then give us absolute
secondary precepts that would
always hold.
- certain actions were seen by
Aquinas to be contrary to
human nature. Reason would
then give us absolute
secondary precepts that would
always hold.
- secondary precpts
- Primary Precepts are
not concerned with
actions themselves, but
with our telos or
purpose.
- primary precepts are self-evident principles
- apparent and real good
- Following a ‘real’ good will result in the
preservation or improvement of self,
getting nearer to the ‘ideal human nature’
that God had planned.
- apparent goods that may be pleasurable
(e.g. drugs) but ultimately lead us to fall
short of our potential.
- Reason is used to
determine the ‘real’
goods.
- Reason is used to
determine the ‘real’
goods.
- Following a ‘real’ good will result in the
preservation or improvement of self,
getting nearer to the ‘ideal human nature’
that God had planned.
- God
- Aquinas believed in life after death, which
leads to a different understanding of God’s
plan for humans.
- Natural Law can be upheld by atheists,
but there seems no good reason for
keeping to Natural Law without God.
- Aquinas believed in life after death, which
leads to a different understanding of God’s
plan for humans.
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