Primary Precepts

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  • Primary Precepts
    1. Preserve (innocent) life
    2. Reproduction
    3. Educate children
    4. Worship God
    5. Order society
  • The primary precepts were created by manualists and based off of a passage Aquinas wrote in the Summa Theologica
  • Humans have the drive to preserve life and to carry on existing, as do all other substances
  • Humans have the desire to reproduce and to educate and care for their offspring. Animals share this desire
  • Humans are rational beings due to their ability to know the truth about God and live in a society
  • Precepts are not deontological
  • The precepts are teleological- concerned with our final end
  • Aquinas believes our final end has 3 points
    1. Our end goal is happiness "human flourishing"
    2. "Beatific vision" the ultimate, direct, self-communication of God to humanity
    3. Collective and individual focus for humans after death (union with God)
  • Aquinas's idea of initial and final cause is taken from Aristotle
  • Efficient causes tell us facts/ descriptions
  • Final causes tell us intentions
  • According to Aquinas, whatever promotes the final cause= right and whatever goes against it= wrong