Natural Law Flashcards
Natural law ethics sees right and wrong as fixed things, linked to a view of the human being and what makes humans flourish and a greater idea of an ? law devised to help humans flourish.
Eternal.
Acts are judged right or wrong in relation to the extent to which they meet their ? ?, involving the use of reason, and reason leads us towards going good.
Ultimate end.
According to ?, reason, reflecting on the world, reveals that certain primary precepts are good: protecting life, ensuring reproduction, education and loving God.
Aquinas.
Catholic approaches to sexual ethics draw heavily on ? ?: the creation of new life’s central to the purpose of sexual intercourse and marriage, and the unifying aspect of lovemaking mustn’t be separated from procreation. Sexual relationships and sexual acts that can’t bring forth and nurture new life are morally ?
Natural law.
Questionable.
According to the Catholic Church, homosexual sex can’t bring forth new life. Homosexual, premarital and extramarital sex and sex using contraceptives are morally wrong according to natural law as they don’t support ? ?, they’re not good for sustaining a flourishing human society. Sex’s an apparent good, not a real good, because the primary purposes of sex are frustrated.
Aquinas’ precepts.
It’s argued that the positive effects of a unifying sexual act between a loving couple are a good enough reason for sex without the need to focus on reproduction. If reproduction isn’t an intrinsic purpose of sex, then ? ? no longer opposes homosexual sex.
Natural law.
? ? ? argues that sexual acts may’ve multiple purposes and he questions why ever sexual act should be required to fulfil every purpose. If the purpose of sexual organs is only reproduction then marriage between elderly couples who can’t have children’s unnatural. Condemning people for using their sexual organs to unite in pleasure reveals the ? and irrational ? in our society.
Burton M. Leiser.
Prejudices.
Taboos.
An argument could be made that, under natural law, ? ? could be moral, as a way of resolving infertility. In the Hebrew Scriptures, Abraham sired a child by his servant girl Hagar when his wife Sarah was believed to be barren (? 1:6). Surrogate mothers offer the possibility of reproduction when infertility prevents it. Surrogate sex may be extramarital sex, but it isn’t necessarily against natural law. This isn’t a conclusion that Catholic thinking could reach.
Extramarital sex.
Genesis.
