PHL243H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Heart Sounds, Presupposition, Fornication
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Lecture 3 the natural law theory of sex. For today: aquinas and natural law, q 154: looking at the text, methods and assumptions: questions, movie: kinsey (2004) Justifying p(a) so: other uses might impede the organ"s primary function. E. g. , if you use a knife as a screwdriver and then break the knife in doing: but they might actually enhance the primary function. E. g. can adultery strengthen marriage? (a goal of swingers ). That would make it consonant with the natural end: or they might be neutral and facilitate other ends. E. g. riding a bicycle doesn"t impede our sense of balance (which is technically for standing and walking and sitting upright, etc. : an alternative first premise, pa" no organ has more than one natural function. So if no intention, then no function: this seems to presuppose an intentional agent, for aquinas, god is indeed the intentional form of nature. But god doesn"t actually play a big role in the argument.
