Knowing the Natural Law: From Precepts and Inclinations to Deriving Oughts

by Steven Jensen

Recent discussions of Thomas Aquinas's treatment of natural law have focused upon the ""self-evident"" character of the first principles, but few attempts have been made to determine in what manner they are selfevident. On some accounts, a self-evident precept must have, at most, a tenuous connection with speculative reason, especially our knowledge of God, and it must be untainted by the stain of ""deriving"" an ought from an is. Yet Aquinas himself...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081322733X
• ISBN13: 9780813227337
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 8.8"