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  • Can Natural Laws be Derived from Sociability?

  • Sean Coyle
  • Journal:
    New Blackfriars / Volume 101 / Issue 1091 / January 2020
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    01 January 2024, pp. 46-66
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    January 2020
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  • The article questions whether it is possible to derive natural laws from human sociability. It examines the work of Aristotle, Augustine and Aquinas, and concludes that there are certain natural laws that can be derived from the social character of human beings. Some of these hold across all societies and at all times (semper et ad semper) whereas others hold only in general but are subject to exceptions (semper sed non ad semper). The article concludes by confronting an anti-social and immoralist challenge to the idea of natural laws of sociability.

  • Natural Law and Goodness in Thomistic Ethics

  • Sean Coyle
  • Journal:
    Canadian Journal of Law & Jurisprudence / Volume 30 / Issue 1 / February 2017
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    08 February 2017, pp. 77-96
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    February 2017

  • The purpose of the essay is to recover a correct conception of natural law and goodness in the ethics of Saint Thomas Aquinas. It suggests that the dominant interpretation of Thomism known by legal philosophers—that of John Finnis—is importantly at variance with Aquinas’s true account. Against the dominant interpretation, a true account of natural law must (i) differentiate between natural law and ethics in the full sense (moral theology), and (ii) interpret references to human good as references to virtuous goodness rather than non-moral goodness. The main body of the essay explores the place of these concepts in Aquinas’s account of ethics.

  • Natural Law in Aquinas and Grotius — An Ethics for Our Times?

  • Sean Coyle
  • Journal:
    New Blackfriars / Volume 97 / Issue 1071 / September 2016
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    01 January 2024, pp. 591-609
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    September 2016
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