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McCabe and Aquinas on Love and Natural Law
Author(s) -
Heron Jason A.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
new blackfriars
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1741-2005
pISSN - 0028-4289
DOI - 10.1111/nbfr.12230
Subject(s) - morality , natural law , incarnation , conversation , natural (archaeology) , philosophy , order (exchange) , natural order , epistemology , law , environmental ethics , sociology , theology , philosophy of law , political science , history , comparative law , linguistics , archaeology , finance , economics
This article investigates the relationship between love, law, and human nature in the thought of McCabe and Aquinas. The article puts McCabe and Aquinas into conversation in order to illuminateMcCabe's estimation of the natural law as an “insufficient ethic” and a feature of ethics that sheds a “great deal of light” on the matter of human morality. The article seeks to articulate the integrity of natural morality as a feature of the Divine Wisdom that ultimately perfects natural morality via the incarnation of the Son.