Aristotetle’s influence upon Christian Theology
This possible development of Aristotelian ethics was in fact taken up by Catholic theology, most notably by the medieval philosopher Thomas Aquinas. It then becomes the basis of a so-called 'natural law' morality. Two examples will illustrate the role of 'function' in Catholic morality. Since human beings have been created by God to live and to perpetuate their own being, suicide is wrong. And since human beings have been given sexuality in order to reproduce and perpetuate the species, contraception, frustrating this proper purpose of sexuality, is wrong.
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