Personal Participation in the Thomistic Account of Natural Law
Personal Participation in the Thomistic Account of Natural Law
Author(s): Catherine PetersSubject(s): History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Special Branches of Philosophy
Published by: International Étienne Gilson Society
Keywords: Thomas Aquinas; Karol Wojtyła; John Paul II; human being; person; personalism; Thomistic personalism; participation; natural law; nature; metaphysics; modern philosophy; consciousness;
Summary/Abstract: 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.
Journal: Studia Gilsoniana
- Issue Year: 7/2018
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 453-468
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
