Free Download Luis Cortest, "The Disfigured Face: Traditional Natural Law and Its Encounter with Modernity (Moral Philosophy and Moral Theology)"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 0823228533 | PDF | pages: 156 | 0.8 mb
The central argument of this book is that the traditional notion of Natural Law has almost disappeared from the ethical and moral discourse of our time. For Thomas Aquinas, the author whose conception of Natural Law forms the foundation for the book, the ontological and ethical orders are not autonomous but inseparable-in effect, his ethical system is an "ontological morality." For Thomas, the ethical (practical wisdom) must be understood as an extension of the metaphysical (speculative wisdom).