Natural Law Flashcards
Give a quote from Aquinas on the nature of law.
“If in any point it deflects from the law of nature, it is no longer a law but a perversion of law”
Give a quote from Aquinas on equality.
“Natural Law is the same for all men… there is a single standard of truth and right for everyone… which is known by everyone.”
Give a quote from Corinthians supporting Natural Law.
“If I give all I possess to the poor… but do not have love, I gain nothing.”
Give a quote from Aquinas on the foundation of natural law.
“The first precept of law is ‘good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided’. All other precepts of the natural law are based upon this.”
Give a quote from Aquinas on the self-evident nature of laws.
“Man has a natural inclination to know the truth about God and to live in society.”
Give a quote from Aquinas on interior acts.
“The giving of aims for vainglory is said to be evil.”
Give a quote from Aquinas on interior and exterior acts.
“But if the will be good from its intention of the end, this is not enough to make the external action good.”
Give a quote from the Jeremiah 1:5 prohibiting abortion.
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I set you apart.”
Give a quote from the Scared Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prohibiting abortion and euthanasia.
“The council therefore condemned crimes against life ‘such as any type of murder. genocide, abortion, euthanasia or wilful suicide’.”
Give a quote from Aquinas opposing euthanasia.
“To bring death upon oneself in order to escape the other afflictions of this life, is to adopt a greater evil in order to avoid a lesser evil.”
Give a quote from the Hippocratic Oath opposing euthanasia.
“… I will neither give a deadly drug to anybody who asked for it, nor will I make a suggestion to this effect.”
Give a quote from the Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith opposing euthanasia and abortion on the basis of innocent life.
“Nothing and no one can in any way permit the killing of an innocent human being, whether a foetus or an embryo, an infant or an adult, an old person, or one suffering from an incurable disease, or a person who is dying.”
Give a quote from Aquinas on the doctrine of double effect.
“Since one’s intention to save one’s own life is not unlawful, seeing that it is natural to do everything to keep itself in being as far as possible.”
Give a quote from Judith Jarvis Thomson in opposition to a NL stance on abortion.
“A newly fertilised ovum, a newly implanted clump of cells, is no more a person than an acorn is an oak tree.”
Give a quote from Tony Nicklinson on euthanasia.
“If I knew that I could die, I would live. My life, my death, my choice.”
