Natural Law QUOTES

Question 1

13 words, Thomas Aquinas

Answer 1

“The natural law is the sharing in the eternal law by intelligent creatures.”

Question 2

18 words, Herbert McCabe

Answer 2

“For Aquinas, the basis of the moral life is prudence, right practical reason in the pursuit of charity.”

Question 3

21 words, Thomas Aquinas

Answer 3

“Our ultimate end is unrelated good, namely God, who alone can fill our will to the brim because of infinite goodness.”

Question 4

29 words, Thomas Aquinas

Answer 4

“The natural law is unchangeable in its first principles, but in its secondary principles it may be changed through some special causes hindering the following of the primary precepts.”

Question 5

16 words, Humanae Vitae (1968)

Answer 5

“Every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life”.

Question 6

32 words, James Rachels

Answer 6

“The theory of Natural law suggests morality as autonomous. It has its own questions, its own methods of answering them and its own standards of truth. Religious considerations are not the point.”

Question 7

17 words, James Rachels

Answer 7

“The world is conceived as a rational order with value and purpose built into its very nature.”