A. St Thomas Aquinas’ Natural Law – laws and precepts as the basis of morality: Aquinas’ four levels of law (eternal, divine, natural and human); Natural Law derived from rational thought; based on a ...

The purpose of Aquinas's Ethics is to place Thomas Aquinas's moral theory in its full philosophical and theological context and to do so in a way that makes Aquinas (1224/5-1274) readily accessible to ...

Synderesis is a handy Greek word, meaning the spontaneous capacity to comprehend certain acts as indubitably wrong or indubitably right. Very broadly, natural law theory posits that, as humans, we ...

Samuel D. Samson is a writer working in Washington, D.C. A graduate of the University of Texas, his work focuses on the intersection of modern politics with Thomas Aquinas’ natural law theory and ...

The sudden death of Justice Antonin Scalia on Feb. 13 inspired an outpouring of eulogies and appreciations for a man recognized, even by his critics, for his unmistakable integrity, keen intelligence ...