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Natural Moral Law (St. Thomas Aquinas)
Natural Moral Law (St. Thomas Aquinas)
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What is a secondary precept?
A rule given to us directly by God, like the ten commandment
A really difficult rule to follow.
A general rule to help you understand primary precepts.
A specific rule which moves you towards a primary precept.
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According to Aristotle what is the final cause of a human?
Eudaimonia
To be at one with God in heaven.
Happiness
We have no final cause
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Aquinas identified four types of law. What are they?
Divine Law, Natural Law, Hanuman Law and Natural Law
God's Law, Eternal Law, Human's Law and Natural Law
Divine Law, Internal Law, Human Law and Natural Law
Divine Law, Eternal Law, Human Law and Natural Law
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How are you supposed to figure this all out?
Using God given human reason.
Using reason.
Using human reason.
Prayer.
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What is human law?
Laws made in a parliament.
The rules of the Pope
Rules made for a society using divine and natural law.
Rules to a game.
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Which of the following is not a primary precept?
Reproduce (within marriage)
Love your neighbour
Learn and Seek Knowledge
Worship God
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Which of the following secondary precepts would Aquinas approve of?
It is OK to break the law to help people
Do not have an abortion
Don't read the Bible, just use your god given human reason.
Make babies with a person you love
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Aquinas borrowed Aristotle's ideas but said we have a different final cause. What is it?
To become God.
To be at one with each other.
To be at one with God in heaven.
Eudamonia
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Where does human reason come from according to Aquinas?
We got it from God.
It is God given.
God gave it to us.
From God.
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What is double effect?
No idea.
Like a philosophical echo.
You can do a bad thing for a good reason.
A bad action is OK if the unwanted consequence of a good one
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What is an interior act?
Your justification.
Your motive for doing something.
Your excuse for doing the thing.
Your action.
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What makes an action right?
Good interior and Good exterior act.
Bad interior and Good exterior act.
Good interior and Bad exterior act.
Bad interior and Bad exterior act.
13
Spot the apparent good.
going to church
going to a science lesson
giving to charity
going to a charity drinking competition
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According to Aristotle everything has a final cause - what is a final cause?
The last impact
A way achieving an important thing.
A bad joke
A purpose
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What is natural law?
Rules given to us by humans.
Rules of science, that describe nature.
Rules discovered by looking at nature.
Rule discovered using human reason.
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What is divine law?
The laws of nature.
Scientific laws of nature.
The rules of God communicated directly to humans.
Laws about how to communicate with God.
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What is eternal law?
The never changing law governing all, inaccessible to us.
The law God communicates to humans.
Figured out using human reason.
The laws of physics.
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What is an exterior act?
What you do.
How you do it.
Why you do it.
What you say.
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According to which Greek philosopher does everything have a final cause?
Plato
Thomas Aquinas
Aristotle
Socrates
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What is the point of a Primary Precept?
It is a general rule which guides us to our final cause.
It is the school before secondary precept.
It is a general rule which guides us away from our final aim
It is our final cause.
