Natural Law Quotes Flashcards
Reason
Aristotle-Nicomacheon Ethics
“Reason is the true self of every man, since it is the supreme and better part… Reason is, in the highest sense, a mans self”
Eudaimonia
Aristotle
“Eudaimonia is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”
Morality
Aristotle
“The moral life is the life according to reason”
Natural Law first appearance
Cicero
“True law is the right reason in agreement with nature; it is of universal application. Unchanging and everlasting…”
Absolute law
Aquinas
“Natural law is the same for all men… there is a single standard of truth and right for everyone which is known by everyone”
Natural Law definition
Buckle
“The idea of Natural Law is sometimes described as the view that there is an unchanging, normative order that is part of the natural world”
Innate nature of law
St Paul
“The requirements of the law are written on the hearts, their conscious also bear witness”
Definition of law
Aquinas
“A certain rule and measure of acts whereby man is induced to act or is refrained from acting”
Eternal Law
“God has in HIs intellect an idea by which he governs the world. This idea in God for governance of things is eternal law”
Divine Law
Bowie
“Natural law directs people to their final destination. It is an divine law, Gods law”
Human Law
Martin Luther King
“An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law”
Synderesis Rule
Aquinas
“Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided”
Primary Precepts
Heber J Grant
the precepts “pointed out the path which, if we walk in it, will lead us back into his presence”
Interior and Exterior Acts
Matthew 6.5
“And when ypu pray… pray to your father in secret; and your father which sees you in secret shall reward you openly”
Real Goods
Bowie
“Exterior goods alone are not enough to create a harmonious and cohesive society”
Virtues
St Paulin corinthians 13.13
“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
Faith
Aquinas
“An act of intellect which assents to the divine truth at the command of will, moved by gods grace”
Faith and Hope
Aquinas
“Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand”
Definition of Faith
Aquinas
“a habit of mind, whereby eternal life is begun in us, making the intellect assent to which is not apparent”
Hope
Aquinas
“The things that we love tell us what we are”
Love (charity)
“Love is patient, love if kind”
Theological Virtues
Aquinas
“by which we live righteously, of which no one can make bad use, which God works in us, without us”
Cardinal Virtues
Plato
“Knowledge becomes evil is the aim be not virtuous”
Prudence
Aristotle
“right reason applied to practice”
Temperance
Mark
“The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak”
Justice definition
John A. Hardon
“Habitual inclination of the will”
Strength-Status of Humans
Cole and Grey
“Being human means acting in line with our true nature, when we follow our natural inclinations”
Strength-Justice
John Hardon
“the constant and permanent determination to give everyone his or her rightful due”
Strength-Clear base of morality
Bowie
“It gives clear unambiguous answers to moral questions in time of moral uncertainty”
Virtues
Golden Rule
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
Strength-Basis of morality
Pope Benedict
“Christianity has pointed nature and reason as the true sources of law… both spheres are rooted in the creative reason of god”
Strength-Critisism of relativist theories
Pope
“moving towards a dictatorship of relativism”
Strength-not subjective or tied to emotions
Mel Thompson
“Feeling can change, but the issue of right and wrong remains fixed”
Strength-Telos
Joe Jenkins
“each person is born with a particular puropse to fulfil… and human natyure was created by God”
Weakness-naturalistic fallacy
Patrick J Clarke
“If mankind has no religious destiny, it could be argued that the idea of following a natural law ethic ultimately makes no sense”
Weakness- out-dated
James Rachel
“Natural Law has gone out of fashion… the world as described by Galileo, Newton and Darwin has no place for ‘facts’ about right or wrong”
Weakness- nothing is intrinsically right or wrong
“The sabbath was made for the good of human beings, they were not made for the sabbath”
Against Abortion
Donim Vitae 1987
“If embryos are living, whether viable or not, they must be respected just like any other human person”
Supporting Abortion
Hope
“When suffering is the result of following an ethical principle, then we need to look very carefully at our ethical principles and ask whether we are applying it too inflexibly”
Against Abortion and Euthanasia- Sanctity of life
“God alone is the lord of life from ite beginning until its end”
Against Abortion- telos
Psalms
“Children are a gift from the Lord, a child is a reqard drom Him”
Supporting Euthanasia
Hariss
“Natural law theory is inherently hostile to utilitarian arguments, and this is seen to full effect in assertion that there is a slippery slope that must be avoided at all costs”
Against Euthanasia- Look after your body
“Do you not know that our body is a temple of the holy spirit, who is in you, whom you have recieved from god?… honour god with your body”
