Whether or not Natural Law provides a helpful method of moral decision-making

Argument FOR

Based in universal human nature

eg: Natural Law’s 4 Tiers of Law - Human Law: all countries have similar basic laws (Don’t kill, no stealing etc.)

Moreover moral thinkers all came up with similar moral prescriptions such as the Golden Rule: “treat others as you would like to be treated” which can be found in Christianity, Chinese Philosophy and Hinduism, such diverse religions and belief systems.

Good evidence that we are all born with a moral orientation towards the good (Telos) - Foundation of Aquinas’ theory

COUNTER-Argument (AGAINST)

SIgmund Freud + Joseph Fletcher:

Should expect to find more moral agreement than we actually do - but we actually find vastly different moral beliefs.

Disagreement seems to fall across cultural lines - suggest it is actually social conditioning which causes moral views, not Natural Law in human nature. So even Fletcher argues there is no innate God-given ability to discover natural law.

So concludes ethics is based on faith, not reason.

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