key words

• Deontological

  Ethics focused on the intrinsic rightness and wrongness of actions
• Telos

  To the end, purpose, of something
• Natural law

  Deontological theory based on behaviour that accords with given laws or moral rules that exist independently of human societies and systems
• Synderesis

  Follow good and avoid evil, the rule that the precepts follow
• Secondary precepts

  Laws which follow primary precepts
• Primary precepts

  Most important rules in life, to protect life, to reproduce, to live in community, to teach the young and believe in God
• Practical reason

  The tool to make moral decisions
• Eudaimonia

  Living well, as an ultimate end in life which all other actions should lead towards