RS [OCR] - NML ESSAY PLAN 1
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- Created on: 19-06-23 20:07
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- IF HUMAN NATURE IS SINFUL, CAN NML WORK?
- NML
- THOMAS AQUINAS
- deontological
- primary precepts are in our nature toward the good [worship God, Preserve Life, Reproduce]
- god given reason to derive our secondary precepts (governing laws)
- tiers of law - natural law (reason), divine law (bible), human laws (divine + natural)
- synderesis rule: do good and avoid evil
- humans are inclined to do good due to our reason
- AUGUSTINE THEODICY
- original sin (genesis) where all of mankind are corrupt (it is in our human nature to sin)
- 'the fall' - adam and eve betray God in an act of selfish desire
- scholars against NML: Barth, Augustine
- Barth = humans corrupted to a spiritual level
- placing a dangerous overreliance on human reason
- instead of NML, God's revelation only works
- if humans know God's morality (through 'reason') there is no point in Gods revelation
- instead of NML, God's revelation only works
- placing a dangerous overreliance on human reason
- Barth = humans corrupted to a spiritual level
- AO2
- nazism = strong evidence against human nature having an orientation toward the good
- Hume = NML commits naturalistic fallacy (ignoring possibility of natural things being harmful)
- link to God Given reason
- Moore = human reason is fallible
- too optimistic = nazism + slavery.
- if really had intrinsic good, should not be able to find evil to the extent we do
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