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Natural-law thinkers after Aquinas predominantly agree that what is good is
{ 1 } - deduced from empirical facts about the world, especially facts about human desires (naturalism).
{ 2 } - defined as what God desires -- so ethics is based on God's will (supernaturalism).
{ 3 } - ultimately self-evident (intuitionism).
{ 4 } - They don't agree on these issues.
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Natural-law thinkers after Aquinas predominantly agree that what is good is
{ 1 } - deduced from empirical facts about the world, especially facts about human desires (naturalism).
{ 2 } - defined as what God desires -- so ethics is based on God's will (supernaturalism).
{ 3 } - ultimately self-evident (intuitionism).
{ 4 } - They don't agree on these issues.
Natural-law thinkers disagree about this.
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Natural-law thinkers after Aquinas predominantly agree that what is good is
{ 1 } - deduced from empirical facts about the world, especially facts about human desires (naturalism).
{ 2 } - defined as what God desires -- so ethics is based on God's will (supernaturalism).
{ 3 } - ultimately self-evident (intuitionism).
{ 4 } - They don't agree on these issues.
Natural-law thinkers disagree about this.
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Natural-law thinkers after Aquinas predominantly agree that what is good is
{ 1 } - deduced from empirical facts about the world, especially facts about human desires (naturalism).
{ 2 } - defined as what God desires -- so ethics is based on God's will (supernaturalism).
{ 3 } - ultimately self-evident (intuitionism).
{ 4 } - They don't agree on these issues.
Natural-law thinkers disagree about this.
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Natural-law thinkers after Aquinas predominantly agree that what is good is
{ 1 } - deduced from empirical facts about the world, especially facts about human desires (naturalism).
{ 2 } - defined as what God desires -- so ethics is based on God's will (supernaturalism).
{ 3 } - ultimately self-evident (intuitionism).
{ 4 } - They don't agree on these issues.
Natural law is more a pluralistic tradition of doing ethics than a precisely formulated ethical theory. So thinkers in the natural-law tradition can take different sides in the debate over supernaturalism, naturalism, and intuitionism.
The great majority of natural-law thinkers, however, oppose consequentialism and so would be in the nonconsequentialist camp. But some adopt a "proportionalism" close to utilitarianism.
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