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Natural Law (Criticisms (Why do we not follow them? (apparent goods,…
Natural Law
Criticisms
Why do we not follow them? (apparent goods, ignorance, emotion)
(Hume) Just because something is a certain way doesn't mean it ought top be - 'is, ought' problem
Survival skills are good? However, sometimes they are seen as bad by others e.g. killing someone
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William Ockham - attacked Aquinas' view that obedience to NL is rewarded by eternal life - "God cannot be controlled by humans"
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Aristotle
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Thought natural justice was not always the same as that which was just by law. Observed that human laws may vary from place to place but natural law is a separate thing and is absolute
Keywords
Deontological: an ethical theory that argues that the goodness of an action lies in itself regardless of consequences
Absolute: one truth that applies to all time, all places and all people
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S&W
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Weaknesses
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'is, ought' problem (Hume)
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