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Natural Law Theory Flashcards

1
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What are the cardinal virtues?

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Justice
Courage
Temperance
Prudence

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What are the revealed virtues?

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Hope
Charity
Faith

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What are cardinal virtues?

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Human virtues

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What are revealed virtues?

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Virtues from the bible

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What are the primary precepts?

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Protect the innocent
Worship god
Educate the young
Live in an ordered society
Reproduced
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6
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What are the types of virtue?

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Revealed

Cardinal

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7
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What is the hierarchy of laws?

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Eternal law
Divine law
Natural law
Human law

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What’s the synderesis rule?

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Do good and avoid bad

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9
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What is eternal law?

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God’s law that always has been and always will be, but we can’t understand it as we are finite while He is infinite. There is epistemically distance between us

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What is divine law?

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God’s law revealed through scripture

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What is natural law?

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God’s law revealed through reason

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What is human law?

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Laws we make to create an ordered society

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13
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Who developed natural law theory?

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St Thomas Aquinas

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Are the primary precepts absolute or relative?

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Absolute

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15
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Are the secondary precepts absolute or relative?

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Relative

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What is the doctrine of double effect?

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When the intention is good but the outcome is bad, cancer treatment resulting in abortion

17
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What is an apparent good?

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Something that isn’t actually good like drinking to be more confident instead of just being confident

18
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What is a real good?

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When you do a good exterior act without a bad intention like boasting about giving to charity

19
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What is everyone’s ultimate goal?

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To return to god and gain eternal life in heaven

20
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Strengths of NLT

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Absolute moral theory so easy to use
Catholics like it
Can be updated through secondary precepts 
Can follow even if not religious 
Same principle for everyone
21
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Weaknesses of NLT

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God put a plan into the world, only religious people believe this
Sometimes you need to break the primary precepts
Doctrine of double effect can be manipulated
Why would god give us faulty reason?
What if you can’t follow primary precepts (can’t reproduce?)

22
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Arguments for abortion

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Poor quality of life
Bad financial state
Not able to bring it up
Rape
Don’t want to put it up for adoption
Busy career
23
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Arguments against abortion

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Killing
Can put it up for adoption
Murder
Disabled people can have a good quality of life
Sanctity of life

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