Primary and secondary precepts

• Vardy and Grosch- the starting point for NML to work is to work out the purpose of human life
• Primary Precepts

  Worship God

  Ordered Society

  Reproduce

  Learn and Educate

  Defend the innocent
• Aquinas believed if people followed primary precepts then they are pleasing god and are morally acceptable
• Secondary Precepts

  Rules that follow from primary precepts
• Primary - absolute

  Secondary- some flexibility
• Gill argues they are interrupted to the context of the situation