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R.E year 10
Issues of Good and Evil
Natural Law
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Key part of Catholic
moral
teaching is a belief in
natural law
It’s the idea that above all
human
legal
systems
there is a
moral
law that every human
understands
+ should live by
It was put forward by
Saint Thomas Aquinas
Same idea in the
Universal Declaration
of
Human
Rights
- which suggests there’s some
natural rights
every human should have
Catholics
believe in natural law because as humans all share the same human
nature
Natural law suggests that there’s
moral
laws of right and wrong which are universal +
no
dependent on human laws