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2023: Nowe Szaty Cesarza

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Lex rationis or Lex naturalis moralis

  • Karolina Kozłowska
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52097/ci.8491  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2024-02-22

Abstract

The thesis compares John Finnis' theory of law against the traditional natural law theory of St. Thomas Aquinas. The thesis demonstrates that there are a number of differences between Aquinas' philosophy of natural law and Finnis' philosophy of natural law. Finnis's philosophy of law, although formulated in opposition to the dominant positivist tradition in Anglo-Saxon countries and full of appreciation for Aquinas's achievements, is, after all, distinctly different from St. Thomas's idea, which has a certain metaphysical dimension.

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