Cleaving the Natural Law at Its Joints
This essay presents a new interpretation of the famous article on natural law in the Summa theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas, I-II, q. 94, a. 2, as placed within the context of an classical understanding of beatitude and virtues, according to which the purpose of that article is, first, to set out th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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The Thomist
Year: 2024, Volume: 88, Issue: 1, Pages: 41-76 |
| IxTheo Classification: | KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages NCA Ethics VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Philosophy of law
B Thomism B Aquinas B Natural Law B Decalogue B Virtues |
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| Summary: | This essay presents a new interpretation of the famous article on natural law in the Summa theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas, I-II, q. 94, a. 2, as placed within the context of an classical understanding of beatitude and virtues, according to which the purpose of that article is, first, to set out the basis on which the Decalogue may be construed as a natural kind (a natural kind may be understood as a grouping which we are naturally constituted so as to view as a unity), and, second, to indicate the natural "joints" at which this unity is appropriately divided. The task of enumerating and accounting for the precepts within that natural kind is left for STh II-II, q. 122. The earlier article is deliberately planned with a view to the later article, and it is a mistake to read the structure or role of the later article into the earlier. |
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| ISSN: | 2473-3725 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Thomist
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