PHI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Practical Reason, Vise
17 Feb 2017
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It would seem that there is no eternal law because every law is imposed on someone, but there is not someone from eternity on whom a law could be imposed. A law implies order to an end. A law is nothing else but a dictate of practical reason emanating from the ruler who governs a perfect community. Whether there is in us a natural law. It would seem that there is no natural law in us because man is governed sufficiently by the eternal law. It would seem that there is not a human law for the natural law is a participation of the eternal law. Now through the eternal law all things are most orderly. Therefore the natural law suffices for the ordering of all human affairs. A law bears the character of a measure, but human reason is not a measure of things, but vise versa. Whether there was any need for a divine law.
