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2 days ago · Ius, Legal Justice, Common Good, Mixed Government, Constitutional Liberty, St. Thomas Aquinas Abstract This article argues that Aquinas defines ius as the object of justice in its relation to individual persons, in which justice as virtue directs man in his relation to other individuals toward the common good.
2 days ago · e. Thomism is the philosophical and theological school which arose as a legacy of the work and thought of Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274), the Dominican philosopher, theologian, and Doctor of the Church . In philosophy, Thomas's disputed questions and commentaries on Aristotle are perhaps his best-known works. In theology, his Summa Theologica is ...
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3 days ago · “An understanding of natural law persisted through the Middle Ages, especially in Thomas Aquinas, and through the Post-Reformation era with Reformed Scholasticism, until the twentieth century with Karl Barth.” The need for reasserting natural law is pressing today because the social fabric of society has untethered itself from previously ...
3 hours ago · The first idea of natural law theory was explained by Roman philosopher Cicero (103–43 bce). St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274 ce) revisited this theory in Europe in the Middle Ages by aligning Aristotelian virtue ethics with the commands of Christianity. Aquinas’s approach portrayed this approach to place the motivation behind obeying the ...
11 hours ago · St. Thomas Aquinas gives the following as a complete definition of law. A law is “an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated.” [1]
2 days ago · It may be helpful, for now, to consider the moral laws as the necessary natural laws, and the political laws as the contingent human laws, as differentiated in Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologica ...
1 day ago · St Thomas Aquinas, who died in 1274, spoke of it as a practice already prevalent in his time, and he recommended it as a way of avoiding irreverence and spilling (cf. STh III, q. 80, art. 12). At the University of Paris, Alexander of Hales, who died in 1245, said that it was only permissible for lay people to receive the Eucharist under the ...
