Strengths and Weaknesses of NML
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- Created on: 06-06-20 15:46
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- Strengths and Weaknesses of NML
- Strengths
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- John Waters states that NML offers a foundational, universal and absolute approach to ethics.
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- John Waters states that NML offers a foundational, universal and absolute approach to ethics.
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- Provides an ethical system for someone during an era where the individual is left in a 'sea of limitless choice'.
- Telling people that they're morally free doesn't help them; they need the 'anchor' of an unchanging and therefore clear ethical system.
- Provides an ethical system for someone during an era where the individual is left in a 'sea of limitless choice'.
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- It gives guidance on day-to-day questions of how to live and links them to the fundamental principles of life.
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- NML enables people to establish common rules to structure society.
- Gives clear rules for all people.
- NML enables people to establish common rules to structure society.
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- Adaptable
- John Finnis made a theory of NML that didn't need the exiatnce of God.
- Adaptable
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- Weaknesses
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- Aquinas could be wrong about his primary precenpts or his definition of human purpose that the theory hinges on.
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- Fletcher claims that moraly systems like NML amounts to legalist nonsense and should be replaced by an ethic of Christian love.
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- Karl Barth thought NML relied too much on reason and not the Bible.
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- Aquinas assumed it was natural for all humans to worship God.
- Eg. that is not a natural assumption of an atheist.
- Aquinas assumed it was natural for all humans to worship God.
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- The idea that we all share common human nature desgined by God has lef to questionable claims about humans' sexual nature.
- Eg. Homosexuals don't fit into Aquinas' purpose of humanity.
- The idea that we all share common human nature desgined by God has lef to questionable claims about humans' sexual nature.
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