Deriving natural law from the Decalogue, natural inclination and God's silence
Amanda Perreau-Saussine de Ezcurra saw positive law as a resource for uncovering natural law. She also saw our natural inclinations, especially our natural sociability and our natural tendency toward benevolence, as crucial to a proper understanding of natural law. Drawing on these two foundational...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2019]
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Scottish journal of theology
Year: 2019, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 265-276 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Decalog
/ Natural law
/ Positive law
/ Moral act
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| IxTheo Classification: | HB Old Testament NCA Ethics |
| Further subjects: | B
Natural Inclination
B Natural Law B Thomas Aquinas B Intention B Decalogue |
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| Summary: | Amanda Perreau-Saussine de Ezcurra saw positive law as a resource for uncovering natural law. She also saw our natural inclinations, especially our natural sociability and our natural tendency toward benevolence, as crucial to a proper understanding of natural law. Drawing on these two foundational ideas of hers, this article will look at the Decalogue, the pre-eminent example of divine positive law, and then our concrete experience of desire, as revelatory of what she called a law-like ordering of the world prior to human thought and action, a natural ordering that constrains practical reasoning'. To her characteristic concerns, it will add attention to God's silence. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-3065 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Scottish journal of theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0036930619000322 |