Jean Porter on natural law: Thomistic notes

Thomist

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 275-309

  Dewan, Lawrence ^a  

^a Dominican College of Philosophy and Theology   (Canada)

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EID: 62449210433     PISSN: 00406325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/tho.2002.0018     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Thomas Deman, O. P. , Aux origines de la théologie morale (Montréal: Inst d'études médiévales, 1951).
2. Jacques Maritain, Man and the State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 80-84.
3. STh I, q. 1, a. 1.
4. Etienne Gilson, Le philosophe et la théologie (Paris: Librairie Arthème Fayard, 1960), 97-119: "La théologie retrouvée. "
5. Cf. Gilson, Elements of Christian Philosophy (Garden City, N. Y. , 1960), 275.
6. Cf. Augustine, De libero arbitrio bk. 2, section 10 and following.
7. Cf. Gilson, Le philosophe et la théologie, 93-94.
8. Jacques Maritain, Le paysan de la Garonne (Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 1966), 189, speaks of the doctrine, theological and philosophical, of Thomas as "essentially grounded in truth" (that man have attained to such a doctrine he says is improbable, but he adds that the improbable sometimes occurs).
9. Cf. Jacques Maritain, The Range of Reason (New York: Scribners, 1952), 9: "If I. . . am a Thomist, it is in the last analysis because I have understood that the intellect sees. . . ". This is true, not only of the speculative intellect, but also of the practical intellect.
10. Henri de Lubac, Le drame de l'humanisme athée (Paris: Éditions Spes, 1945).
11. Gilbert K. Chesterton, Tremendous Trifles (New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. , 1909), 134-35, in an newspaper article entitled, "The Red Angel. "
12. Moreover, it is not intelligible here without the doctrine of the state of original justice. See Lawrence Dewan, O. P. , "St Thomas, Lying, and Venial Sin," The Thomist 61 (1997): 279-99.
13. Patrick Lee, in "Is Thomas's Natural Law Theory Naturalist?", American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 71 (1997): 586-87, actually thought it was some sort of exception, saying: "Thomas. . . was not always consistent in the application of his basic principles. " It is hard to imagine a more carefully crafted and well-considered presentation.
14. On this general issue of "naturalism," see Lawrence Dewan, O. P. , "St Thomas, Our Natural Lights, and the Moral Order," Maritain Studies/Études maritainiernnes (Ottawa) 2 (1986): 59-92