Arguments

Question 1

Aquinas’s Natural Moral Law

Answer 1

5 Primary Precepts: POWER (Preservation of innocent life, Ordered society, Worship god, Educate children, reproduce.)

Question 2

Bentham’s Utilitarianism

Answer 2

A consequentialist theory, an action is good if it maximises happiness for the greatest number, hedonistic because it regards happiness as our ultimate aim.

Question 3

Kantian ethics

Answer 3

We should never treat rational beings as objects or as means to an end. Respect the autonomy of all rational beings by not imposing our will on them.

Question 4

Mill’s Liberalism

Answer 4

Founded on the Harm Principle: if an action doesn’t harm anybody else then that person should be free to perform it.

Question 5

Scruton’s Conservatism

Answer 5

Political theory, we should conserve our traditions because tradition is a source of inherited wisdom and it would be destructive to abandon.

Question 6

Divine Command Theory

Answer 6

Moral requirements come from God’s commands. (in other words if god said it was okay then it is morally okay)

Question 7

Perfect being theology

Answer 7

theological view that god is perfect in every way. He is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. everything he commands is perfect (1 John 3:5)