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Key terms for theme 2ABC aquinas' natural law Flashcards

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legalistic

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  • one must obey religious laws or rules in order to gain eternal life
  • links to deontology
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reason

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  • a gift given by god when he made humans in his image
    -enables humans to identify their creative purpose and follow it (according to aquinas)
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recta ratio

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  • right reason
  • our conscience making right decisions in accordance with natural law
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telos

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  • goal, purpose
    -the highest good which is sought, aim
  • for aquinas this is eternal life with god in heaven
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natural law theory

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  • ethical theory based on the concept of a final cause or purpose
  • a body of universal moral truths deduced from reason and experience, a view associated with Aristotle and developed by aquinas
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thomas aquinas

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  • dominican priest (1224 - 1274)
  • most influential philosopher and theologian of roman catholic church
  • developed natural law
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beatific vision

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  • ultimate telos of humans, eternal life with god in heaven
  • aquinas term
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summa theologica

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  • aquinas’ key text in which he wrote about natural law
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synderesis rule

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  • do good and avoid evil
  • sums up aquinas’ natural law
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four levels of law

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  • aquians’ description of the different levels at which gods created purpose for life operates and relates to human life
  • highest ———->lowest
    eternal, divine, natural, human
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eternal law

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  • the aspects of gods created order and purpose which are known only to god
  • humans can not reason them out and they have not been revealed to human beings
  • divine omniscience
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divine law

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  • aspects of divine order and purpose which have been revealed to human beings by god.
  • for aquinas (christian) revealed in bible
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natural law

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  • aspects of divine order and purpose which are knowable to humans by reason
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human law

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  • rules and laws created within human society which must uphold divine order and purpose
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primary precepts

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  • aquinas’ summary of the five key purposes for which humans were created
  • key functions of humans, fufilling the functions is how we achieve our telos
    -primary precepts with acronyms WORLD
  • precepts are absolute, and aquinas said we can know these precepts through reason
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secondary precepts

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  • individual rulings made in human societies, should help humans to uphold the primary precepts
  • they are derived from the primary precepts
  • e.g. primary precept=preserve innocent life, would lead to abortion being wrong, so the secondary would be “do not abort”
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cardinal virtues

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  • according to aquinas there are 4 cardinal virtues identified by reason, PRUDENCE, JUSICE, TEMPERANCE, FORTITUDE
  • believed to form the fundamental basis of a moral life, terms used by Aristotle and aquinas
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revealed virtues

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-three virtues of FAITH, HOPE, CHARITY revealed through scripture
- cannot be obtained through human effort, can only recieve them by being infused through divine grace into the person
- also called theological virtues - directed by god

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interior acts

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our intention - aim when we perform an action

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exterior acts

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act itself - physical action we perform

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real goods

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an action that will help a person achieve their purpose

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apparent goods

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  • a sin - an action that may seem good if we lack virtue and have reasoned wrongly
  • these mistakes will lead people away from their purpose
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double effects

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  • two effects
    aspect of natural law, allows us to judge intentions over actions if the action has two outcomes, one which upholds the primary precept and one which doesn’t
  • the outcome which doesn’t uphold it must be the intended (interior act)
    -e.g. perform surgery on a pregnant woman with cancer, removing womb =good interior and exterior act as it was done to save life, even if is an unintended side effect the baby dies.
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What does WORLD stand for ?

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Worship god
Ordered society
Reproduction
Learning and education of children
Defend and protect the innocent

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