Modest Reading of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Connection between Natural Law and Human Law, A
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Hensler, Louis W. III
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2010
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43
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INTRODUCTION|For at least the last two decades, the natural law tradition has been "enjoying a renaissance " or "revival." Professor J. Budziszewski, a popular contemporary natural law theorist, recently provided a fairly standard description of the natural law as "the foundational principles of right and wrong which are both right for all and at some level known to all ..." Budziszewski's conception of the natural law is substantially similar to the definition of the natural law that Lord Coke provided almost four hundred years ago: "The law of nature is that which God at the time of creation of the nature of man infused into his heart, for his preservation and direction..." Neither Budziszewski nor Lord Coke's understanding of the natural law is entirely original; they inherited this view of the natural law from the most influential natural law theorist of all time, the thirteenth-century Dominican monk, St. Thomas Aquinas. Scholars have called Aquinas "one of the most renowned and brilliant theologians and philosophers in history" and "a thinker of unequaled depth and subtlety."...
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43 Creighton L. Rev. 153 (2009-2010)
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Creighton University School of Law