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Intrinsic Evils

Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

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The New Natural Law Theorists Are Almost Focusing on the Object of an Act

The new natural law theorists are almost focusing on the object of an act in such a way that really is physical, where you're not considering the reason why you would do something. But ironically, given their hyper attention to the object and their way of determining what object to describe an action with, they end up in a kind of intentionalist place. They say craniotomy could be justified on the basis that a doctor was simply trying to remove a blockage from a birth canal.

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