INVIOLABILITY

OF LIFE
GABRIEL MARK INOT
ROBERT CLYDE CRISTOBAL
INVIOLABILITY OF LIFE

 Considering the life is a gift from God, it is

sacred and inviolable.
 The Inviolability of life also called as Sanctity
of life.
 Inviolability of life is a principle of implied
protection regarding aspects of sentient life
that are said to be holy, sacred or otherwise
such value that they are not to be violated.
IMPORTANCE OF INVIOLABILITY OF LIFE

 The Bible teaches that human beings are

created in the image of God. It also teaches
that murder is forbidden.
 Christians also believe that only God should
choose when life begins and ends.
 It also has an impact on beliefs about issues
such as abortion and euthanasia.
MORAL EMPLICATION
 The dignity of every human life, as it is a gift
from God, must be defended and protected.
 All human beings are included (each and
every human being), at all stages of existence,
with every quality of experience, reflecting every
type of human diversity, and encompassing
every possible quality of relationship to the
person who does the perceiving. What all are
included in is a vision of their immeasurable
worth and inviolable dignity.
INVIOLABILITY OF LIFE ACCORDING TO
ST. THOMAS AQUINAS
 The views of St. Thomas Aquinas on the existing
natural law theory with Christian exposure
accorded a universal sanctity for human life.
 Thomist version of natural law recognized man
made laws only to extend where it goes in tune
with the divine reason.
 The declaration of right to life, liberty and
pursuit of happiness by the Americans as rights
endowed by the nature in 1776 was observed as
the spirit of Thomist version.
MORAL FRAMEWORK REASON FOR
GOODNESS
 First identify the various courses of action
available to us. Second, ask who will be
affected by each action and what benefits or
harms will be derived from each. And third,
choose the action that will produce the
greatest benefits and the least harm. The
ethical action is the one that provides the
greatest good for the greatest number.