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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 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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