Definitions
What is Natural Law?
This is the law written on our hearts that helps us know right and wrong.
What is guiding us to happiness
Natural Law
When you are following the natural law what are you doing?
Choosing to do the right thing
What do intellect and will do?
Help you choose what's right from wrong.
What is Eternal Law?
God’s plan for all creation and how it is supposed to work
What is free will (or reason)?
Humans have this, which allows them to make moral choices.
A dog eating when hungry is an example of this.
instinct
What is rationalizing?
making excuses for doing something wrong
What is a precept?
A basic rule that tells us what we should do
What is instinct (or laws of nature)?
Animals follow this instead of making moral choices as an automatic decision
What is a disordered act?
Give and example
Leading you away from happiness
EX: Cheating on a test
What does natural law reveal itself through
The nature of things
What is virtual knowledge?
The ability to know something but not fully understand or apply it
What is “Do good and avoid evil”?
The most basic principle of Natural Law
What are you doing when you decide to not do your chores when you know to do so
Not following natural law
What is the most fundamental precept of the natural law
do good and avoid evil
What is formal knowledge?
Understanding and actually applying what you know.
True or False : Because the human person has rational nature he is able to discover the natural law by using his rational powers
True
Is it ordered or disordered to drink gasoline instead of water?
Disordered
What is the purpose of natural law
To guide us to happiness