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“The Natural Lawapproach to ethics is medieval and outdated” - Discuss.
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"The Natural Law approach to ethics is medieval and outdated." Discuss. Natural law is an absolutist approach and the basis to Catholic teaching. According to St. Thomas, natural law is "the rational creature's participation in the eternal law" which the Catholic ethic interprets as God's wisdom and direction of all movement and action of nature leading to our 'final cause'. Natural Law is a prescriptive move from describing how things ought to be to how things should be. The rules of Natural Law are in Greek philosophy, one of the major philosophers of Natural Law being Aristotle who believed that everything has a purpose, and that fulfilment of its design or the supreme good, 'eudemonia' should be sought. Thomas Aquinas later merged these ideas into a Christian theology and that the primary principle of the Natural Law theology is that 'good is to be done and ensued and...
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