Item Detail
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30288
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0
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8
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English
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Thomas Aquinas Meets Joseph Smith : Toward a Mormon Ethics of Natural Law
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Dialogue : A Journal of Mormon Thought
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Spring 2018
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51
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Farmington, UT
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Dialogue Journal
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79-100
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In this paper, I analyze some attempts to form a Mormon ethical method and propose a different method based on Thomistic natural law theory. This method has been eschewed by some writers in the Mormon tradition, but I contend that this is due primarily to misinterpretation or overly narrow interpretations of the natural law. Other authors have offered ethical methods based on utilitarianism or deontology, both of which may be attractive theories of ethics for society but do not adequately capture what a theory of ethics directed toward salvation would entail. I propose a theory for Latter-day Saint personal ethics that can be utilized in the concrete messiness of everyday life—one that, while thorough, is yet flexible enough to adapt to new situations while
remaining tethered to fundamental theological principles.
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