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The 4 Causes and the Essence of Law

The 4 Causes and the Essence of Law

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At the TAC colloquium on the common good I attended this June, a disputed question came up regarding St. Thomas's definition of law in question 90 of the Summa:

Law is an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community, and promulgated

Two scholars put forward an interpretation of that definition I had never heard of, b…

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