Personal Participation in the Thomistic Account of Natural Law

• Authors: Peters Catherine
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The author seeks to show how participation serves as a focal point of a Thomistic personalist account of natural law. While Aquinas himself does not invoke the concept of person in his account of natural law, the author argues that participation can and should be understood as a personal act. According to her, justification for this interpretation is found in the commonality of rationality: that which both makes a substance to be a person and renders the participation of man in the eternal law to be a truly natural law.

Keywords

EN

Thomas Aquinas; Karol Wojtyła; John Paul II; human being; person, personalism; Thomistic personalism; participation; natural law; nature; metaphysics; modern philosophy; consciousness

• Publisher: International Étienne Gilson Society
• Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 453-468

Dates

published

2018-09

Contributors

author

Peters Catherine

• University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX, USA

References

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Notes

EN

SELECTED PAPERS OF THE SOCIETY FOR THOMISTIC PERSONALISM. Guest Editor of the Issue: R. Mary Hayden Lemmons

Identifiers

ISSN

2577–0314

ISSN

2300–0066

DOI

10.26385/SG.070322