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Natural Moral Law - Coggle Diagram
Natural Moral Law
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Key Info
- deontological, absolutist and legalist ethical theory
- actions themselves are intrinsically right or wrong
- morality is about rules and duties
- absolutism one version of morality holds in all places at all times for all people - it's universal
- legalism we should make our decisions based on previously established laws
- rooted in human nature and our search for genuine happiness
- we have an inherent sense of what's right or wrong
- moral laws are known by all men and women who have the use of reason
- can be traced back to Aristotle, the Stoics and Cicero
- best known as a Christian system of ethics developed by Thomas Aquinas
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