The Natural Law (Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IaIIae, q. 91 and 94) - A Course In Ethics

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You're interested in more videos discussing the nature of law, I take it? I've got something like 200 videos discussing various texts, thinkers, and issues in Ethics and the History of Philosophy arranged into various playlists

Gregory B. Sadler Hello!Is there a difference between natural law and moral law

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This is very well done. I just began my dissertation on natural moral law.

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[@GregoryBSadler]

You might say it has several purposes. Hopefully, if human laws are well-constructed, they will help those within those political communities to progress towards their determinate goods -- and there are a number of these, of course. You can think of human law as the ways in which (again hopefully) the natural law, and perhaps some of the clarifications provided by the divine law are made concrete within particular human communities. It doesn't always work out like that, unfortunately

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Hi Gregory I am a final year student at university in England and I am doing my dissertation on virtue. I am focusing on other modules this term but i was wondering if you would mind if next term i ran a few ideas past you while i am doing it? P.S. Thank you sooo much for the videos i realllly appreciate them!!

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[@bsv5225]

So when sensuality is under the control of reason it does indeed participate in the natural law? But when the inclination for sensuality deviates from reason it becomes fomes and does not belong to natural law, but still belongs to eternal law because it acts as a penalty, "depriving man of his proper dignity", for disobeying reason?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Yep, that's more or less it. Though it's not as if there's one single thing -- "sensuality" -- that works like some uniform block or part of the human being

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"they're actually a particular part" - LOL!

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Thank you

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