NML - Key points

Question 1

Key Strengths of NML

Answer 1

1) Absolute - offers clarity in firm principles
2) PP are mostly agreed upon to be desirable goods what most people want to pursue
3) SS allow flexibility
4) NL values rights and life
- Grotius NML would apply even if there was no God as some laws are self evident

Question 2

Telos

Answer 2

Final end - origins in Aristotle and development in Aquinas

Question 3

The four tiers of Law

Answer 3

1) Eternal Law: the principles by which God made and controls the universe and which are only fully known to God
2) Divine Law: The law of God revealed in the Bible, particularly in the ten commandments and the Sermon on the Mount
3) NL: The moral alw of God wihtin human nature that is discoverable through the human use of reaosn
4) Human Law: the law of nations

Question 4

The Precepts

Answer 4

Synderesis / primary/secondary