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According to Aquinas, human laws and customs can be set up to promote the common good. Which of these was NOT part of his approach to human laws?
{ 1 } - Human laws are designed to support the natural law (e.g. laws about ownership, property rights, the police, courts, and punishments specify and back up the wrongness of stealing).
{ 2 } - Human laws that violate the natural moral law are genuine laws, but we have no duty to obey them.
{ 3 } - Human laws can rightly vary somewhat from place to place, so long as they do not violate the natural moral law.
{ 4 } - All of these were part of his approach.
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According to Aquinas, human laws and customs can be set up to promote the common good. Which of these was NOT part of his approach to human laws?
{ 1 } - Human laws are designed to support the natural law (e.g. laws about ownership, property rights, the police, courts, and punishments specify and back up the wrongness of stealing).
{ 2 } - Human laws that violate the natural moral law are genuine laws, but we have no duty to obey them.
{ 3 } - Human laws can rightly vary somewhat from place to place, so long as they do not violate the natural moral law.
{ 4 } - All of these were part of his approach.
This was part of his approach.
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According to Aquinas, human laws and customs can be set up to promote the common good. Which of these was NOT part of his approach to human laws?
{ 1 } - Human laws are designed to support the natural law (e.g. laws about ownership, property rights, the police, courts, and punishments specify and back up the wrongness of stealing).
{ 2 } - Human laws that violate the natural moral law are genuine laws, but we have no duty to obey them.
{ 3 } - Human laws can rightly vary somewhat from place to place, so long as they do not violate the natural moral law.
{ 4 } - All of these were part of his approach.
Aquinas insisted that human rules that violate the natural law are unjust and thus not genuine laws at all. So he wouldn't say that Nazi laws that prescribed stealing from and killing Jews were "unjust laws"; instead, he'd say that these "so-called laws" were not laws at all.
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According to Aquinas, human laws and customs can be set up to promote the common good. Which of these was NOT part of his approach to human laws?
{ 1 } - Human laws are designed to support the natural law (e.g. laws about ownership, property rights, the police, courts, and punishments specify and back up the wrongness of stealing).
{ 2 } - Human laws that violate the natural moral law are genuine laws, but we have no duty to obey them.
{ 3 } - Human laws can rightly vary somewhat from place to place, so long as they do not violate the natural moral law.
{ 4 } - All of these were part of his approach.
This was part of his approach.
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According to Aquinas, human laws and customs can be set up to promote the common good. Which of these was NOT part of his approach to human laws?
{ 1 } - Human laws are designed to support the natural law (e.g. laws about ownership, property rights, the police, courts, and punishments specify and back up the wrongness of stealing).
{ 2 } - Human laws that violate the natural moral law are genuine laws, but we have no duty to obey them.
{ 3 } - Human laws can rightly vary somewhat from place to place, so long as they do not violate the natural moral law.
{ 4 } - All of these were part of his approach.
One of them is not.
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