Ontology and Ethics in Thomas Aquinas
Ontology and Ethics in Thomas Aquinas
Author(s): Augusto TrujilloSubject(s): Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Philosophical Traditions, Metaphysics, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Philosophy of Middle Ages
Published by: Институт по философия и социология при БАН
Keywords: Aquinas; ontology; ethics; practical reason; natural law
Summary/Abstract: This article explains how Aquinas understood: a) apprehension of the first intellectual concepts: ens, verum et bonum simpliciter (Ens is understood metaphysically as composed of human nature and the act of being, ordered according to the bonum); b) establishment of the first and the second practical commandments in a genuinely human or rational person; c) ethics and natural law as essentially derived from ontology. Therefore, natural law only makes sense from a metaphysical point of view, not merely a physical or material one.
Journal: Balkan Journal of Philosophy
- Issue Year: VIII/2016
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 115-122
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English