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The Natural
LAW
Law:
St. Thomas Aquinas
Group 2
Lee Charriz Cabangisan
Janeth Cabangon
Sophia Loureen Caborubias
Catherine Camarino
At the end of this chapter, you should be Learning
able to:
Outcomes
Key Questions:
Who am I?
Who do I want to be?
How can I get there?
WHO AM I?
Identity Inquiry:
Thomistic Natural Law explores human identity.
Self-knowledge reveals strengths and weaknesses.
Doing good shapes, while doing bad malforms.
Ethical Task:
All human acts are moral acts.
Ethics primarily concerns human identity.
The ethical person is defined by free acts.
WHO DO I WANT TO BE?
Dynamic Self-Knowledge:
Self-knowledge adapts toward self-determination.
Ethical acts guide self-building.
One m a y ha ve th e lon g in g , ev en th e
potentia l, to b e w ha t he /she wa n ts to be,
stretching it so fa r a s em b rac ing th rou gh
his/her desire all that is.
Who evokes this thirst in the human person?