
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


While we modern folks have a generally clear distinction between law as in descriptive laws of nature and law as in ethical or civil commandments, these Medieval philosophers saw these as very much related if not actually the same thing, given that humans can ignore the dictates of their nature, i.e. reason, whereas the rest of nature just proceeds according to natural law, which for these theologians means God's dictates. So what actually is the relation, in general, between law and reason?
Our text includes Aquinas' presentation of this issue and his near-contemporary Duns Scotus' commentary on it. Read along with us.
You can choose to watch this on video.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
By Evergreen Podcasts5
55 ratings
While we modern folks have a generally clear distinction between law as in descriptive laws of nature and law as in ethical or civil commandments, these Medieval philosophers saw these as very much related if not actually the same thing, given that humans can ignore the dictates of their nature, i.e. reason, whereas the rest of nature just proceeds according to natural law, which for these theologians means God's dictates. So what actually is the relation, in general, between law and reason?
Our text includes Aquinas' presentation of this issue and his near-contemporary Duns Scotus' commentary on it. Read along with us.
You can choose to watch this on video.
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

6,821 Listeners

15,272 Listeners

1,233 Listeners

2,111 Listeners

2,675 Listeners

1,616 Listeners

249 Listeners

112,279 Listeners

586 Listeners

353 Listeners

5,227 Listeners

205 Listeners

15,834 Listeners

3,462 Listeners