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Natural Law disscuss:
Natural law refers to those moral laws of God which have been built into our structure and which are sometimes referred to as the law written on our hearts. ... Aquinas we are the machines and the manuals are Eternal law and Divine law. All humans are incapable of reading Eternal law, and some have received the simplified version, Divine law (Bible). ... He too comes to the conclusion of rational activity and that this has basic primary precepts which are a direct reflection of Gods law and that from these; secondary precepts may be drawn in order to give far more detailed guidance on how to live. ...
Reformed Epistemologists: In the protestant tradition believe that our nature is so corrupt that our ‘noetic structure’ is unable to determine through reason the moral law. ...
Advantages of Natural Law:
1. ... reason is corrupt full of sin and in the need of God’s grace
Proportionalism:
Its fundamental position is that you can use natural law to an extent to work out wrong and right, but where as natural theory believes there are intrinsic evils proportionalism maintains that there may be proportionate reasons where one might go against ones basic morality. ...
Bernard Hoose most notable British exponent of propotionalism agrees that natural law is on the whole correct but on occasions there maybe proportionate reasons to go against traditional natural laws like, generally wrong to cause injury but in the case of surgery the evil caused is the result of aiming at proportionate good, such as scars or loss of a limb is called Ontic evil or pre-moral evil.
Approximate Word count = 1020
Approximate Pages = 4.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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