PHIL 3040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Divine Law, Divine Providence, Malum Prohibitum
12 Sep 2018
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Four kinds of laws: eternal law, natural law, human law and. Objections: since law is imposed on someone who is not there for eternity, since promulgation cannot be from eternity, since particular ends that are ordained by law are not eternal. It follows that no law is eternal: god is forever, the world is governed by divine providence, in divine providence divine reason has the nature of law. By definition it is the dictate of reason. God created us in his image, and we possess reason which is our rationality. Natural law is a set law that governs rational creatures, given from a divine power and derived from eternal law, drawn through reason. Rational order, god also created human beings when there is an order to devise rules of conduct-decide that the order is good in accordance with the natural law. It gives a definition of the human being as equated with god.
