Online Seminar Series

Natural Law – Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas

Saturday, February 25, 2023

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The term natural law is a little hazy. Is natural law simply a more authoritative version of positive law? And if that is true, how might we understand how the founders of the American republic came to believe in the proposition that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights which are self-evident truths? Conversely, does science and civil law show us that there are no natural laws, rather only values?

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If natural law is real is it grounded in the metaphysical or in something else? How do we reconcile the problems of the is and ought, skepticism, positivism, notions of right and wrong, teleology, scientism, the connection between virtue and happiness, and human dignity.

This portion of the series will study the Treatise on Law by Thomas Aquinas. Registrants need not have attended prior sessions in the series to fruitfully gain from discussing this work, which stands autonomously.

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February 25 Reading:

Treatise on Law by Aquinas – Questions 90-93

St. Augustines Press; 1st edition (June 2009)

ISBN 978-1587318801

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Series Schedule:

Saturday, March 25 – Questions 94-97

Saturday, April 29 – Questions 98-105 (selections)

Saturday, June 3 – Questions 106-108

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Schedule:

12:00-2:00PM PST

Tutor:

Carl Bobkoski

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Location:

Online. Register to receive the link.