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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2020
- This video offers an overview of Thomas Aquinas' take on different types of law. The Eternal Law is God's mind, the Divine Law is God's Law revealed through Scripture, the Natural Law is God's Law inscribed in our nature, and the human law are laws humans create. Ideally Human Law would be based on God's eternal law as revealed through the divine and natural laws.
This dude is awesome! He even includes the buddy Christ in this explanation. This is amazing
An excellent, energizing and understandable presentation of a technical topic! 👍🏽
Thank you so much! this helps me so much in making my speech❤️
could one categorize natural law as a normative ethical framdwork with an essentialist ontology rooted in theism and a metaethical realist commitment?
Hello! I thin that is a rather specific question. The answer varies - depending on who you ask. I'll break it down by category:
Normative Ethical Framework? Mostly. A natural law claim would certainly attempt to establish some normative claim - though it might not always be "normative for all humans" - rather, it might be "normative for some humans (e.g. all women, all men, etc.). HOWEVER, some theorists (like Jean Porter) say that there are very few actual normative rules we can derive from human nature as there is too much variation based on culture.
Essentialist ontology? depends on who you ask. Some people claim Natural law are a set of precepts found in nature that can be "read off" through reason. Others consider natural law to be more of a rational process than a list of rules. In any case, both seem to be innate/natural parts of humanity but one has substance and the other is more of a process.
Theism? Depends. There are some non-theistic natural law theories that simply claim there is morality and moral law inscribed in nature but it doesn't come from a God. Human Rights theories, for example, draw from a normative natural law foundation but are not necessarily theistic. My videos are mostly for my students in a Catholic school - thus we operate from a theistic framework.
Metaethical reallist committment? Also depends. Certainly natural law participates in a metaethical process that utilizes the lived reality of the subject (realism). However, some natural law claims attempt to arrive at universal ahistorical moral claims as well... They simply use real nature to arrive at those claims - so I am not sure about the word "commitment."
@@ishruiz2070 Thanks for this very helpful answer. I should have made my question a bit more clear though as I had an Aristotelian-Thomistic conception of Natural Law in mind (defended by David Oderberg or Robert Spaemann for example). I wanted to know how it fits into "modern" categories of ethics.