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| | Natural law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Thomas Aquinas restored natural law to its independent state, asserting that, as the perfection of human reason, it could approach but not fully comprehend the divine law. | | | Despite its pagan origins, a number (though not all) of the early Church Fathers sought to incorporate the natural law tradition into Christianity (the suspect devotion of the Stoics to pagan worship no doubt aided in this adoption). | | | What the law commanded varied from place to place, but what was "by nature" should be the same everywhere. |
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| | Catechism of the Catholic Church - PART 3 SECTION 1 CHAPTER 3 ARTICLE 1 |
| | Finally, the Law is completed by the teaching of the sapiential books and the prophets which set its course toward the New Covenant and the Kingdom of heaven. | | | 1966 The New Law is the grace of the Holy Spirit given to the faithful through faith in Christ. | | | 1968 The Law of the Gospel fulfills the commandments of the Law. |
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| | Natural Law and Natural Rights |
| | Today many people imagine that natural law is a code of words, like the code of Hammurabi, or the twelve tables, written down somewhere, on the wall of an ancient Greek temple, or some medieval vellum manuscript, perhaps revealed by God or some divinely illuminated prophet. | | | The definition of natural law that I have just given is similar to that used in the middle ages, but this definition is not obviously scientific. | | | If someone rejects the language of natural law, refuses to use such words, pretends not to comprehend them, and rejects them as meaningless, then he is not interested in using words as a medium of communication. |
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| | Natural law also commands those things that make for the harmonious functioning of society ("Thou shalt not kill," "Thou shalt not steal.") Human nature also shows that each of us have a destiny beyond this world, too. | | | Since each thing has a nature given it by God, and each thing has a natural end, so there is a fulfillment to human activity of living. | | | Man's infinite capacity to know and love shows that he is destined to know and love an infinite being, God. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Natural Law |
| | In the case of inanimate things, this Divine direction is provided for in the nature which God has given to each; in them determinism reigns. | | | It is wrong to drink to intoxication, for, besides being injurious to health, such indulgence deprives one of the use of reason, which is intended by God to be the guide and dictator of conduct. | | | Epicurus, for example, held the supreme principle to be, "Follow nature"; the Stoics inculcated living according to reason. |
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| | burlamaqui.html |
| | Natural jurisprudence is the art of attaining to the knowledge of the laws of nature, of explaining and applying them to human actions. | | | But the acknowledging, says he, of one God, eternal, infinite and omnipotent, may more easily be derived from the desire men have to know the causes of natural bodies, and their several virtues and operations, than from the fear of what was to befal them in time to come. | | | Such is the happy and sweet economy of nature, which annexes a pleasure to the moderate exercise of our senses and faculties, insomuch that whatever surrounds us becomes a source of satisfaction, when we know how to use it with discretion. |
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| | Most young potential law students, I have observed, find these forceful words most disturbing to them as they recognize in them a direct challenge to much of what they have come to assume about the justification for what they are doing with their lives. | | | From this it does not of course follow that there are no natural or human rights; it only follows that no one could have known that there were. | | | It is true that neither nature or revelation needed to exist in the first place. |
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| | Birth Control and the Catholic Church |
| | the reason being that the natural law declares the will of God, and its faithful observance is necessary for men's eternal salvation." In other words, the same Spirit who imparts divine revelation through Scripture also reveals truth through the natural law, and the Magisterium is affirming, here, its authority in interpreting that law. | | | It is, as already mentioned, an attempt to accommodate both the essentialistic, natural law and the existential traditions. | | | Nonetheless the Church, calling men back to the observance of the norms of the natural law, as interpreted by its constant doctrine, teaches that each and every marital act must remain open to the transmission of life. |
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| | NATURAL LAW |
| | In the time of Aquinas, people were taught that God had given control over the world to the pope and the king or emperor. | | | In other words, they were following what Aquinas would have called the human law of their country. | | | Historically, this view derives from St. Thomas Aquinas, a 13th century Dominican monk who, among other things, reintroduced Aristotle into European thought after the Dark Ages. |
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| | In Defense of Natural Law [Book Review] |
| | The project of Grisez-Finnis is to save natural law by reestablishing it on a secular foundation that does not appeal directly to those metaphysical claims that modern science rejects as outdated. | | | Not long ago, the idea that oral or anal sex is as natural as the reproductive kind would have been greeted with general disgust, and even legal disapproval. | | | Although they try to avoid calling attention to it, the new natural lawyers know very well that their project rests on metaphysical assumptions that the dominant scientific culture rejects. |
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| | CITES BY TOPIC: Natural Law Defined |
| | By Natural Law, this would be divine justice for them according to the Bible. | | | We believe that persons of any religion should be free exercise their rights to follow their religion and to talk freely in public settings about what God& law says about the sins of abortion, homosexuality, and fornication. | | | So not even the government can remove God from His sovereign role over both us and the government, and the Bible confirms that we cannot be separated from the love of God, which is the essence of our faith[2]: |
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| | The Natural Law Is What We Naturally Know |
| | Finally, they suspect that the God of natural law is not the God of the Bible, but the God of Deism—a distant Creator who designed the universe, wound it up, set it running, then went away. | | | However, some say that the only place to find moral truth is in the word of God, and that natural-law tradition denies this. | | | He has also made additional things known to the community of faith; these are special revelation. |
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| | http://www.qando.net/ - "Natural" Law |
| | For lack of a definition, this argument falls flat, as it is a rehashing of the old Aristotlean and Augustinian arguments. | | | Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. | | | Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven. |
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| | natural law -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | body of laws made within certain Christian churches (Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, independent churches of Eastern Christianity, and the Anglican Communion) by lawful ecclesiastical authority for the government of both the whole church and parts thereof and of the behaviour and actions of individuals. | | | In a wider sense the term includes precepts of divine law, natural... | | | Natural law has been recognized since the ancient world to be a general body of rules of right conduct and justice common to all mankind. |
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Nagel-Newton |
| | Belief that all objects, events, and and values can be wholly explained in terms of factual and/or causal claims about the world, without reference to supernatural powers or authority. | | | Nominally derived from Plato's metaphysics, neoplatonic philosophy regards the natural world as a series of emanations from the nature of god. | | | Although voluntarists suppose that god could will anything at all, Aquinas held that even the divine will is conditioned by reason. |
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| | John Hagelin, Ph.D., Proposes Vedic Defense Shield to Prevent War and Terrorism; Create World Peace |
| | Hagelin Launches “Campaign to Rebuild America in Harmony with Natural Law” | | | Institute Director Dr. John Hagelin has launched a nationwide “Campaign to Rebuild America in Harmony with Natural Law” to prevent crime and violence and promote health, peace, and prosperity in the nation. | | | More than 15,000 students attended the David Lynch — John Hagelin “Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain” college campus tour this fall on the East and West Coasts, with 5,000 signing up to receive additional information. |
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| | natural law on Encyclopedia.com |
| | The concept of natural law originated with the Greeks and received its most important formulation in Stoicism. | | | Rationalization and natural law: Max Weber's and Ernst Troeltsch's interpretation of the medieval doctrine of natural law. | | | Christian philosophers such as St. Thomas Aquinas perpetuated this idea, asserting that natural law was common to all peoples—Christian and non-Christian alike—while adding that revealed law gave Christians an additional guide for their actions. |
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| | Natural Resources Law |
| | Convention on Conservation of Nature in the South Pacific (APIA) | | | This section deals with the use of natural resources including land, sea and animal resources. | | | U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea (12/10/82) |
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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: The natural law |
| | Is the natural law the same in all? | | | What are the precepts of the natural law? | | | Are all acts of virtue prescribed by the natural law? |
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| | The Natural Law Party of the United States of America |
| | We encourage all supporters of the Natural Law Party to consider giving their support now to the US Peace Government. | | | John Hagelin, the 2000 NLP presidential candidate, is now president of the US Peace Government, and many former NLP candidates and supporters have taken leadership positions in this new, complementary government, whose purpose is to prevent social violence, terrorism, and war and to promote harmony and peace in the U.S. and throughout the world. | | | The US Peace Government is now carrying forward the programs, policies, and ideals of the Natural Law Party. |
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| | NLPWessex Home Page |
| | 5th International Convention of Natural Law Parties, Bonn, July 1998 | | | Enjoy access to the visionary ideas and programmes aimed at creating a Natural Law based society in the 21st Century - |
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| | Natural Law |
| | This tutorial explores Jurisprudence and our American heritage of law - how we came to the problems we now face and what we can do together to make things better for the future of our children and the world. | | | To unravel the mystery and master the secrets of legal philosophy and the reasons our courts today seem to be wandering from the principles of our founding fathers, go to my home page and order my tutorial Natural Law. | | | A guide to the rules attorneys follow in civil lawsuits. |
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