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Natural law
A deontological theory based on behaviour that accords with given laws or moral rules that exists independently of human societies and systems
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Deontological
From the Latin for ‘duty’ ethics focused on the intrinsic brightness and wrongness of an action
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Eudimonia
Living well as an ultimate end in life which all other actions should lead towards
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Telos
The end or purpose of something
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Synderesis
To follow the good and avoid the evil, the rule which all precepts follow
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Primary precepts
The most important rules in life, to protect life, to reproduce, to live in community, to teach the young and to believe in god
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Secondary precepts
The laws which follow from the primary precepts
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