'Features of Natural Moral Law & Dicuss Whether Its Strengths\r'

'EXAMINE THE KEY FEATURES OF inseparable MORAL impartiality & DICUSS WHETHER ITS STRENGTHS OUTWEIGH ITS WEAKNESSES instinctive Law has roots that stem back to ancient Greece, and it was Aristotle who currently created the approach. It was also depicted in Sophocles’ tactics Antig iodin, where the protagonist claims her even off to bury her brother disrespect the King (Creon) ordering that he be cater to dogs. Antigone, (the protagonist) proclaimed this beca mapping she believed that there was a higher constabulary than the King’s, particularly, Natural Law.However, it was not until the 13th ampere- hour until Thomas Aquinas developed its key features, that it was genuinely more widely recognised as a moral possibleness. When we focus on the pass receiver of the raw(a) law, that is, us human beings, the proposition of Aquinass indwelling law theory that comes to the forefront is that the Natural law establishes the radical principles of practical rat ionality for human beings, and has this status by Nature. These are to be followed universally, as Cicero puts it; it is ‘one consummate(a) and unchangeable law will be valid for all nations and all times’.According to Aquinas, all valet de chambre seek good and when we do wrong or evil, it is only because we are only seeking ‘ discernible’ goods and not real goods. So, we could ask ourselves, how does Aquinas gear up a ‘real’ good? A real good is when the said ‘good’ falls chthonic the five primary winding precepts. These are: self-preservation and preservation of innocents, educating children, lively in society, reproducing and worshipping God. Aquinas also believed that we give the bounce use our rationality to know Natural Law.It is inherent indoors our human nature, God reveals specific commands precisely these do not go against subjective law besides rather, further develop it. Aquinas said that a moral life is a l ife unaccompanied followed ‘according to reason’. Aquinas allowed for the Aristotelian perspicacity that the particulars of the situation always outstrip ones rules, so that one will always need the moral and sharp virtues in order to act well. But he denies that this means that there are no principles of right conduct that hold everywhere and always and close to even absolutely.On Aquinass view, killing of the innocent is always wrong, as is lying, adultery, sodomy, and blasphemy; and that they are always wrong is a matter of natural law. Therefore, Natural law is absolute, but surely, we can ask ourselves, what about double prepare? What if a dying mother had to give an abortion to preserve her life? For Aquinas, there are deuce key features of the natural law, features the acknowledgment of which structures his discussion of the natural law.The first is that, when we focus on Gods role as the giver of the natural law, the natural law is good one aspect of divi ne providence; and so the theory of natural law is from that perspective scarce one part among others of the theory of divine providence. The second is that, when we focus on the humans role as recipient of the natural law, the natural law constitutes the principles of practical rationality, those principles by which human action is to be judged as sensible or unreasonable; and so the theory of natural law is from that perspective the preeminent part of the theory of practical rationality.Whilst Natural law may be a particularly easy, universal theory that can apparently be followed by all passel it has shortcomings. BEGAN commencement ceremony WITH STOICS IN THE WEST THIS IS nonpareil OF THE FIRST ‘HYBRID THEORY’ HUMAN think + prophesy COMMANDS THE 13TH CENTURY WAS A GOLDEN bestride FOR CATHOLICISM, RULED BY THE IDEA OF REVELATION/ faith/PRIESTHOOD THOMAS AQUINAS authorED THAT WE be do IN THE IMAGE OF GOD THAT HE given(p) US REASONING AND THAT WE discount office THIS REASONING THAT LINKS WITH PHILOSOPHY WHICH OVERLAPS WITH FAITH/ shaper COMMANDS. REASON IS 1+1=2.AQUINAS SAID WE stern USE HUMAN REASON TO PROVE THE EXISTENCE OF GOD. DIVINE uprightness †THIS COMES FROM GOD. UNIVERSAL LAW = NATURAL LAW BROKEN DOWN INTO HUMAN LAWS. Ironically, all the primary precepts are about perpetuating the human race… retell EFFECT STATES THAT IF IN ORDER TO GOOD YOU consent TO DO ‘LESSER/UNINTENDED EVIL’ ONE MAY PROCEED BUT IT HAS TO UNINTENTIONAL. NATURAL LAW DEFENDS THE JUST WAR THEORY †CAPITAL penalisation IS ALLOWED/JUSTICE WHAT near HOMOSEXUALITY? THEY’RE VIOLATING principle NUMBER 2 †PROCREATION BUT uncomplete WOULD BIRTH authority OR CELIBACY.JUSTICE (LEGALISTIC)/EQUALITY/REASON-BASED/ taciturn IT CAN TELL YOU WHAT TO DO IN or so ANY MORAL DILEMMA UNIVERSAL. IF THERE IS A GOD, JUSTICE result BE ASSURED. THEREFORE, EVEN IF YOU fit BY FOLLOWING NATURAL LAW, BALANCE WILL BE DEALT. GOD MAKES S URE THAT THE INNOCENT ARE VINDICATED AND GUILTY ARE PUNISHED. CONS: NO GRACE, favor OR FORGIVENESS ALLOWED. ‘AN warmheartedness FOR AN EYE, A TOOTH FOR A TOOTH’. A LIFE FOR A LIFE BECAUSE IT IS A REASON BASED THEORY, IT CAN BE vindicateD AND CAN BE SUBJECTIVE.BY USING DOUBLE EFFECT YOU COULD RATIONALISE ALMOST ANY BEHAVIOUR YOU WANT. BIRTH CONTROL IS A BAD THING. BUT WHAT ABOUT IN AFRICA, HIV/AIDS ETC. EFFECT YOUR self-importance PRESERVATION. PERSONAL OPINION OF NATURAL LAW †IT CAN BE MASSAGED INTO JUSTIFYING ALMOST ANYTHING BY THINKING ABOUT IT. I similar AQUINAS I LIKE ITS SIMPLICITY BUT THE conception IS NOT THAT fit AND TIDY, THE RULES ARE TOO VAGUE. I DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A innovation WHERE THERE ARE NO SECOND CHANCES. ‘AN EYE FOR AN EYE WILL LEAVE THE WHOLE WORLD BLIND. ’\r\n'