An analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s position on the relationship between justice and legality

This paper is directed at a deep investigation of Thomas Aquinas's position on the relationship between justice and legality, a perennial debate in legal philosophy - are unjust laws laws at all? Modern natural law theorists taking contradictory positions all claim to be faithful to Aquinas...

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Main Author: CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-48132018-12-27T09:08:56Z An analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s position on the relationship between justice and legality CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny This paper is directed at a deep investigation of Thomas Aquinas's position on the relationship between justice and legality, a perennial debate in legal philosophy - are unjust laws laws at all? Modern natural law theorists taking contradictory positions all claim to be faithful to Aquinas's ideas on the matter. Yet, they cannot all be correct. This paper aims to discern Aquinas's true position on the matter by undertaking a detailed study of Aquinas's Treatise on Law, the broader context of the Summa Theologiae within which the Treatise is situated, and Aquinas's methodological and definitional approaches. 2018-10-01T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2855 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4813/viewcontent/Aquinas_justice_legality_juris37_2018.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Law and Philosophy Legal History Public Law and Legal Theory
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CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny
An analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s position on the relationship between justice and legality
description This paper is directed at a deep investigation of Thomas Aquinas's position on the relationship between justice and legality, a perennial debate in legal philosophy - are unjust laws laws at all? Modern natural law theorists taking contradictory positions all claim to be faithful to Aquinas's ideas on the matter. Yet, they cannot all be correct. This paper aims to discern Aquinas's true position on the matter by undertaking a detailed study of Aquinas's Treatise on Law, the broader context of the Summa Theologiae within which the Treatise is situated, and Aquinas's methodological and definitional approaches.
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author CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny
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title An analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s position on the relationship between justice and legality
title_short An analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s position on the relationship between justice and legality
title_full An analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s position on the relationship between justice and legality
title_fullStr An analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s position on the relationship between justice and legality
title_full_unstemmed An analysis of St. Thomas Aquinas’s position on the relationship between justice and legality
title_sort analysis of st. thomas aquinas’s position on the relationship between justice and legality
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
publishDate 2018
url https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/2855
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/4813/viewcontent/Aquinas_justice_legality_juris37_2018.pdf
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