Thomas Aquinas - the natural law: Summa Theologica
Title: Thomas Aquinas - the natural law: Summa Theologica
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1268 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Thomas Aquinas - the natural law: Summa Theologica
Category: /Social Sciences/Philosophy
Details: Words: 1268 | Pages: 5 (approximately 235 words/page)
Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) is a very influential figure in western culture in terms of his contribution to Natural Law theory. Furthermore, Saint Aquinas combined the art of Greek philosophy with biblical scriptures to establish a doctrine for the Catholic Church. St. Aquinas categorized law into four separate but interdependent aspects of law, the eternal law, natural law, divine law, and the human law. Aquinas believed that the natural, divine, and human laws were under
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With the addition of the radicalism and individualism, perhaps we can reach the elevated republic that Socrates, Glaucon, and Adeimantus discussed over two thousand years ago in Plato's republic.
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The Pentateuch and HafTorahs. J.H. Hertz translation. Soncino: London press 1960
Aquinas, Thomas Summa Theolgica. New York: Random House, 1945