Chap., §
1 Int, 4 | traditional doctrine regarding the natural law, and the universality
2 1, 12 | heart (cf. Rom 2:15), the "natural law". The latter "is nothing
3 2, 36 | belonging to the sphere of the natural moral law.61 There has also
4 2, 36 | truths, even those of the natural order,62 have actually posited
5 2, 36 | teaching, of the fact that the natural moral law has God as its
6 2, 40 | same time, by virtue of natural reason, which derives from
7 2, 40 | Indeed, as we have seen, the natural law "is nothing other than
8 2, 41 | participates in it by the light of natural reason and of Divine Revelation,
9 2, 42 | all thanks to the light of natural reason, the reflection in
10 2, 42 | implying that the light of natural reason whereby we discern
11 2, 42 | which is the function of the natural law, is nothing else but
12 2, 42 | why this law is called the natural law: it receives this name
13 2, 43 | commands us to respect the natural order and forbids us to
14 2, 43 | through reason, which, by its natural knowledge of God's eternal
15 2, 43 | and responsible care. The natural law enters here as the human
16 2, 43 | Reason, whereby it has a natural inclination to its proper
17 2, 43 | rational creature is called natural law".82 ~
18 2, 44 | the Thomistic doctrine of natural law, including it in her
19 2, 44 | After stating that "the natural law is written and engraved
20 2, 44 | concluded: "It follows that the natural law is itself the eternal
21 2, 45 | revealed law of God and the natural law, and, within the economy
22 2, 46 | today with regard to the natural law, and particularly with
23 2, 47 | traditional conception of the natural law, which is accused of
24 2, 47 | as well as the so-called "natural inclinations", would establish
25 2, 48 | human body in questions of natural law. ~A freedom which claims
26 2, 50 | the true meaning of the natural law can be understood: it
27 2, 50 | pursuit of his end. "The natural moral law expresses and
28 2, 50 | person and not simply in the natural inclination to preserve
29 2, 50 | body be grasped. Indeed, natural inclinations take on moral
30 2, 50 | find the true God. ~The natural law thus understood does
31 2, 51 | specific aspects of the natural law, especially its universality
32 2, 51 | because of this "truth" the natural law involves universality.
33 2, 51 | reason. But inasmuch as the natural law expresses the dignity
34 2, 52 | negative precepts of the natural law are universally valid.
35 2, 53 | the immutability of the natural law itself, and thus the
36 2, 57 | grasp the essence of the natural law also indicates the biblical
37 2, 59 | practical reason is part of the natural law; indeed it constitutes
38 2, 59 | the very foundation of the natural law, inasmuch as it expresses
39 2, 59 | every man. But whereas the natural law discloses the objective
40 2, 59 | obligation in the light of the natural law: it is the obligation
41 2, 60 | 60. Like the natural law itself and all practical
42 2, 60 | to the authority of the natural law and of the practical
43 2, 67 | and evils indicated by the natural law as goods to be pursued
44 2, 72 | law is known both by man's natural reason (hence it is "natural
45 2, 72 | natural reason (hence it is "natural law"), and — in an integral
46 2, 74 | order, as established by the natural law, is in principle accessible
47 2, 76 | commandments of the divine and natural law. These theories cannot
48 2, 79 | truth, and therefore in his natural inclinations, his motivations
49 2, 79 | are the contents of the natural law and hence that ordered
50 2, 79 | Thomas, contain the whole natural law.130 ~
51 3, 111| use of the behavioural and natural sciences, does not rely
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