NORAINI BINTI MOHAMED RAHIM

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1. If natural law based on Thomas Aquinas is a theory of morality, so good and evil
can be conclude as something which is objective? or universal ?or both?

Good and evil is derived from the rational nature of human being. So, good and evil are thus
both objective and universal.

The good is something that need to be done and pursued while evil is something that need to
be avoided. So, I believes that one needs one's reason to be perfected by the virtues,
especially prudence, in order to discover precepts of the Natural Law that are more proximate
to the choices that one has to make (objective) on a day to day basis.

Aquinas distinguishes different levels of precepts or commands that the Natural Law entails.
The most universal is the command, which is “Good is to be done and pursued and evil
avoided." This applies to everything and everyone, so much so that some consider it to be
more of a description or definition of what we mean by "good." A person does anything and
everything he or she does only because that thing at least "appears" to be good. Even when I
choose something that I know is bad for myself, I nevertheless chooses it under some aspect
of good, i.e. as some kind of good. I know the cake is fattening, for example, and I don't
choose to eat it as fattening. I do, however, choose to eat it as tasty (which is an apparent,
though not a true, good).

2. In your opinion based on the video, can we apply natural law in any other area
besides the theory of ethics?

‘Natural law theory’ is a label that can been apply to theories of ethics, theories of politics,
and theories of religious morality.

In the theory of politics, natural law are there in explaining and elaborating the grounds and
proper forms of governmental authority. As legal theory, political theory explains the normal
desirability that governmental authority in political communities be exercised within the
framework of a rule of law and not of men

Historically, natural law refers to the use of reason to analyze human nature to deduce
binding rules of moral behavior from nature's or God's creation of reality and mankind. In the
theory of religion, natural law is characterises as morality as a function of the rational human
nature that God has given us, stressing God’s purposes in Creation as defining our purpose as
human beings, and therefore as defining how we ought to lead our lives.