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Showing posts with label Voluntarism and the Natural Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voluntarism and the Natural Law. Show all posts
Sunday, June 24, 2012

God's Glory Appears: Submission to the Christ-Event

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C ONFRONTED WITH THE CHRIST-EVENT, specifically, the sacrificial death of Christ on the Cross, the Christian is presented with a theodrama,...
Monday, May 14, 2012

God's Glory Appears: Von Balthasar's Ethics

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O VER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS, we are going to review Christopher Steck's book The Ethical Thought of Hans Urs von Balthasar .* Though as...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Duns Scotus and the Natural Moral Law

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J OHN DUNS SCOTUS is, perhaps, the Franciscan counterpart to the Dominican St. Thomas Aquinas, though he has to contend with the redoubtable...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Voluntarism and Law

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V OLUNTARISM IS THE NOTION THAT law and perhaps even all reality is, at its kernel, an act of will, and not an act of reason. The debate is...
Saturday, April 23, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Lex Pure Poenalis

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A CCORDING TO JOHN FINNIS THERE IS a division between the advocates of the lex pure poenalis theory (whose representative we might make Suar...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Law: Is It Will First or Reason First?

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LAW IS A RULE AND A MEASURE OF HUMAN ACTION. With this "nominal and dialectical definition," the "commonly accepted" de...
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Monday, July 12, 2010

Potpourri of Natural Law

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QUESTIONS RELATING TO A PHILOSOPHY OF NATURAL LAW overlap with other philosophical questions, including those relating to freedom of choice ...
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