The natural law of Thomas Aquinas is just like a bridge that builts between eternal law and human law. When we analyze the law from the point of view of eternal, it is connected with ontology, divinity and stability. ...The natural law of Thomas Aquinas is just like a bridge that builts between eternal law and human law. When we analyze the law from the point of view of eternal, it is connected with ontology, divinity and stability. Thomas’thoughts of natural law is basically one part of eternal law that was inscribed on human nature by God. It is God’s wisdom marked in human nature. With the concepts of participation and analogy, Aquinas lays a solid foundation for natural law where transcendence and immanence become one. In this way, it mirrors the feature of divinity in this theory.展开更多
文摘The natural law of Thomas Aquinas is just like a bridge that builts between eternal law and human law. When we analyze the law from the point of view of eternal, it is connected with ontology, divinity and stability. Thomas’thoughts of natural law is basically one part of eternal law that was inscribed on human nature by God. It is God’s wisdom marked in human nature. With the concepts of participation and analogy, Aquinas lays a solid foundation for natural law where transcendence and immanence become one. In this way, it mirrors the feature of divinity in this theory.
