WHO WAS AQUINAS?
This 13th century Dominican friar wrote the Summa Theologiae
Who is St. Thomas Aquinas
According to Aquinas, this law is “written in our hearts” and known by reason.
What is Natural Law?
Article 8 asks whether one is guilty of which crime when killing by chance.
What is Murder?
This kind of law is made by human governments.
What is human (civil) law?
In the case, a mother smothers her baby to save others from ___.
What are the Nazis (SS police)?
Aquinas was influenced by this Greek philosopher?
Who is Aristotle
Who gives humans the ability to understand Natural Law?
Who is God?
Aquinas says ”chance acts beside one‘s___.”
What is Intention?
Aquinas says unjust laws are ”acts of violence“ rather than true ____.
What are Laws?
Under Aquinas’s ethics, moral guilt depends on this internal factor.
What is intention?
What two things did Aquinas try to combine in his philosophy?
What are faith and reason?
Aquinas teaches that laws which contradict Natural Law are not truly ____.
What is laws (or just laws)?
If someone does something lawful and careful but death happens, are they guilty?
What is No?
The moral principle allowing unintended bad effects if the act and intent are good.
What is the Doctrine of Double Effect?
Would Aquinas say her act was morally right or wrong, and why?
What is wrong, because killing an innocent is never okay - even for a good reason?
Aquinas believed that good law must align with this kind of higher law.
What is Natural Law?
Name ONE of Aquinas’s four cardinal virtues.
What is prudence, justice, temperance, or fortitude?
The philosopher Aquinas quotes when defining ”chance.”
Who is Aristotle?
In Aquinas’s view, morality and law must both aim at this ultimate goal.
What is the common good?
According to Aquinas, even in dire situations, one cannot do this to achieve a good end.
What is commit an intrinsically evil act (like killing an innocent)?
This term describes Aquinas‘s method of logical argumentation used in the Summa
What is Scholasticism?
Aquinas’s hierarchy of law begins with this eternal principle in the mind of God.
What is Eternal Law?
What two situations make a person morally guilty even in accidental death?
What are doing something unlawful or failing to take due care?
Modern legal distinction Aquinas anticipates in Article 8.
What is murder vs. manslaughter?
The mother’s action raises the conflict between these two moral values.
What are the sanctity of life and saving others?