Natural/Moral Law

Who created the Natural Law theory?

• St. Augustine

• St. Thomas Aquinas

• St. Paul

• Aristotle

Aquinas taught that God created us to want ___.

• Evil things

• Little things

• Good things

• Bad things

Which of the following is NOT a basic good?

• Seeking God

• Life

• Living in isolation

• Shunning ignorance

Our ___ shows us the basic goods.

• Religion

• Instinct

• Parents

• Teachers

For every prohibition, there is a ___.

• Negative injunction

• Positive injunction

• Neutral injunction

• Divine injunction

Natural Law states that morality is grounded in ___.

• Sacred Scripture

• Sacred Tradition

• God

• The Universe

What is the "Is-Ought" problem?

• Just because something is a certain way, does not mean that it ought to be that way.

• You must first be able to do something if you ought to do something.

The law of human nature is what human beings ___ to do.

• Want

• Actually

• Never

• Ought

Lewis' evidence of a right & wrong is that we make ___.

• Societies

• Excuses

• Families

• Arguments

Deciding that one set of moral ideas is better than another proves that there is a moral standard.

• True

• False