Yes, you did explain natural law and eternal law,very well!
@thethomist
2 ай бұрын
Thank you for the feedback. God bless!
@rocio8851
Жыл бұрын
I'm very grateful for the clarity you explain such useful and somewhat difficult things! God bless you!
@thethomist
Жыл бұрын
Thanks, Rocio, for the feedback and kind words. I'm glad you find the videos helpful. God bless- Dave Palmer
@noahbarnard6203
3 жыл бұрын
This video was incredibly resourceful and helpful. I appreciate you taking the time to explain things on a more intermediate level (for folks like me who are new to the field of Philosophy).
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
Hi Noah, Thanks for the comment and feedback. I'm glad you're enjoying the videos and learning the Summa. I hope learning it continues to be a blessing to you!
@kristinapeters3093
3 жыл бұрын
I appreciate your great explanations. I want to say also just by your tone of voice and demeanor, I concur you are a very kind-hearted and loving person. Thank you and God bless :)
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Kristina. I appreciate the feedback and comment. God bless you.
@nguyenhoa467
Жыл бұрын
You solved my problem because I was confused about the four kinds of law. Thank you so much! God bless1
@thethomist
Жыл бұрын
Glad it was a help to you, Nguyen. God bless!
@shivagurjar8674
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks sir for this master piece. Love from India. 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳❤️🙋♀️
@thethomist
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for your comment, Shiva. God bless you in India! I have many Indian-American friends and they are all incredible people!
@shivagurjar8674
2 жыл бұрын
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@MrSereeus
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video! I've been reading the summa for over 6 months and I got to this part of the Summa and I was just feeling confused about all this so i decided to google some videos. Your explanations were easy to understand, thank you!
@thethomist
Жыл бұрын
I'm glad it was helpful, Jose. And I hope you continue to enjoy studying the Summa! God bless you- Dave
@justintaboarada4377
3 жыл бұрын
my teacher taught me this topic for over 3 days yet I still don't understand any but when I watched this video I easily understand it
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback, Justin. I'm glad it was easy to understand. I find Thomistic philosophy to be more simple than most believe it to be! The challenge is explaining it in a way that people can understand and that's what I'm trying to do. God bless- Dave
@shortcake1967
2 жыл бұрын
This just made my report on him 10x more interesting. Thanks Dave!!
@thethomist
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback! God bless- Dave
@jerimiefameron5086
3 жыл бұрын
Thank You very much sir for such an information that you have shared to us, I am able to understand these law now for our ethics class. I hope you will share a lot of wisdom to us specially to the students.
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback and I'm glad you find the explanations helpful and that these videos are helping you with your ethics class. God bless you- Dave
@chrisbaldry4233
2 жыл бұрын
That was cool.
@thethomist
16 күн бұрын
Thanks for the feedback.
@rachelmaemaray536
2 жыл бұрын
gosh finally i've found this, very helpful 😭💖
@HippieNinja-lv5lp
18 күн бұрын
you didn't know that 2+2=4?
@HippieNinja-lv5lp
17 күн бұрын
I read elsewhere that Aquinas thought of Eternal Law as the Ultimate Good that is eternal & undying in the mind of God, & isn't directly accessible to us moral humans.
@thethomist
16 күн бұрын
I would say that the eternal law is available to any creature that can know Truth and since we can know truth it's available and accessible to us.
@Alexis-kl3ef
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much sir, you have really helped me with my research!
@thethomist
2 жыл бұрын
Happy to help! Glad the videos are of use to you and your work! God bless- Dave
@bennytshapyrouona1551
Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much. it was really helpful in writing my paper
@qasimbashir7432
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks, helped me a lot to get my assignment done. From Kashmir
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
I'm glad it helped. God bless you! - Dave
@havefunwithkui
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks alot sir.....I've had a great understanding from you.
@thethomist
2 жыл бұрын
You're welcome and thank you for the feedback, Grace. God bless you.
@SEGAYAMIRAELYZELGRACE
Жыл бұрын
this is so helpful i understand it so well thankyou
@thethomist
Жыл бұрын
You're welcome. Thanks for the feedback and glad to hear it helped you.
@scholasticschool3187
2 ай бұрын
I am a new subscriber here. Your video help me discerned different laws. But other parts were not easily accessable. So please can you make a playlist. Thank you.
@thethomist
2 ай бұрын
Thanks for subscribing. I will look into creating such a playlist as you suggest. I honestly don't know how to do that but I'm sure with a little research or with the advice of someone I can figure it out. Thanks for the suggestion.
@ivieomorogieva9305
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you very much, very helpful.
@raufahmad6970
2 жыл бұрын
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@thethomist
2 жыл бұрын
I'm really happy to hear that the video helped you with your assignment! Thanks for letting me know! God bless- Dave
@PriyankaSharma-tu1rh
2 жыл бұрын
Love from India ..thanku so much for it 😊
@thethomist
2 жыл бұрын
Good to know you're watching from India, Priyanka! God bless you and thanks for being in touch!
@chinchkn
3 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for this! you really helped me a lot :) keep it up!
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback and I'm really happy to hear the video was a help to you. - Dave
@hrwarrior6670
3 жыл бұрын
Thank sir you explain in easiest way thanks sir love it♥️♥️love from India
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the feedback and I'm happy to hear you enjoyed the video. God bless you there in India!
@jadenataylor
Жыл бұрын
'Twas helpful, thank you.
@thethomist
Жыл бұрын
Jaden, thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you found the video helpful. God bless you.
@jadenataylor
Жыл бұрын
@@thethomist Of course! And thanks for your comment on one of the videos on my channel too. :)
@Kalyan.Karini
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Sir 😃
@thethomist
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the comment, Kalyan. Your site looks very interesting and encouraging too. I subscribed. God bless you and your work.
@AidenRKrone
Жыл бұрын
Does Aquinas's conception of natural law include the Decalogue? As a theologically conservative Protestant, I define natural law as the Decalogue, which is "written on the hearts" of all persons (Romans 2:14-15), even unbelievers. This explains why every human who has ever lived has had a conception of moral rightness and wrongness. Granted, somebody's conception of morality might be terribly unbiblical (1 Corinthians 2:14), but the fact that they even have an idea of morality in the first place shows that they're naturally deriving it from somewhere. Because of the taint of original sin, most people's conceptions of morality are flawed to varying degrees (Romans 8:7).
@lisamoag6548
2 ай бұрын
Very young children are an excellent example of the natural law of relationships and maintaining life by meeting basic needs.
@HippieNinja-lv5lp
17 күн бұрын
So Eternal Law is the closest we can get to God's law, since no man can ever know the mind of God.
@thethomist
16 күн бұрын
Eternal Law is the same as Divine Reason. It's all that is true and since God is Truth it's in a way Who He is. The truth is in Him and He is truth. All truth participates in the Divine Truth, if that makes sense. We can know God and the mind of God but through Grace. We need help.
@karuheine1152
3 жыл бұрын
I don't know if it is also included in the Philosophy, but is moral law included? If not, where is it included?
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, moral law is certainly included in the laws as explained by St. Thomas Aquinas. A big section of the Summa focuses on the virtues of all types, intellectual, moral, cardinal, theological, etc. Since virtue means living according to reason and the Eternal Law is God's Reason, the virtuous life is one that conforms to reason which ultimately means being conformed, through free will, to the reason and will of God. And this would certainly fall under law in all four of its types. Thanks for the question.
@karuheine1152
3 жыл бұрын
@@thethomist Thank you so much. You are a life saver.
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
@@karuheine1152 You're welcome!
@itsyesha
3 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much po.
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
You're welcome and thanks for the feedback. God bless you! Dave
@jaykhel1422
2 жыл бұрын
Hi sir, thanks for the video it helped me a lot. But may I ask if where does the law which governs the universe and control the life cycle of everything in existence belong? Is it in eternal law?
@thethomist
2 жыл бұрын
Hello and thanks for the question. Yes, what you describe would be under the Eternal Law, according to St. Thomas Aquinas. Things like gravity, the water cycle, photosynthesis, etc. God bless- Dave
@jaykhel1422
2 жыл бұрын
Oww alright, thank you so much☺
@Will_Clayton
11 ай бұрын
You say that anything that anything that is 'true' is considered part of Eternal Law (God's mind/will and wisdom). Now, I'm not confused about the planets' rotation around the sun - we know and can prove that is true. However, concepts such as maths were invented by humans, albeit long ago - so what if we created the numerical system differently and in this alternate timeline you said 2 + 2 = 5 is true? Because we created the concept of maths how can it be part of Eternal Law - it is not fundamentally true throughout the entire universe at all points in time 2+2 = 4 due to it being a man-made concept. Any clarity on this?
@thethomist
11 ай бұрын
Thank you for the question, Will. I believe the truth that 2 + 2= 4 is perhaps the easiest of all of the examples to prove as being universally and eternally true. Now you can argue with the words 'two' and 'four' but the idea of taking 'two' things and adding 'two' more things and comin up with 'four' things is a universal truth that cannot be denied. I hope this helps. I can't see how this was in any sense invented by man.
@HippieNinja-lv5lp
18 күн бұрын
Doesn't Hobbes believe in Jungle Law? Isn't Natural Law above Jungle Law? And where does Constitutional Law fall into all of this?
@thethomist
17 күн бұрын
Hobbes was a materialist and had a very negative view of human nature. He taught that life was brutal, short, miserable and that what was needed was an authoritarian leader (who he called Leviathan) to rule over men to keep the peace through rule of law. He would not have believed in a Natural Law imprinted in man and I'm not sure of the Constitutional law as I'm not sure it existed back then as we know it today. I've not heard of 'jungle law.'
@HippieNinja-lv5lp
17 күн бұрын
@@thethomist Thank you for the response. Being a materialist is a bad thing? So you say, if a man has nothing but belief in the Great Spirit of Goodness, then he is rich, even if he has no possessions? Hobbes said, before the Leviathan had to be set up, that man is born evil, & since man has a right to everything, all men have a right to everything, & that ends in short, brutal, miserable lives of mankind in general. Rousseau believed that man was born good, but he too believes in a Leviathan State, one that's elected democratically tho, & follows the general will of the people. To me, Jungle Law is that law that Hobbes speaks of, where man is evil to each other, & everything goes. Natural Law is rational man's participation in eternal law. So natural law isn't man being a beast, but what is revealed as logical & good to him. Natural law is a step up from Jungle Law. The US Constitution bases a bunch of the Bill of Rights upon Natural Law. I like the wholeness of the 10 commandments, it's coherent & covers a bunch. For civilization, you need strong marriages, & respect for property & life, & the truth. Since we can never know God's law, but can get close with eternal law, do you think the 10 commandments is eternal law?
@thethomist
17 күн бұрын
@@HippieNinja-lv5lp Thank you for this information. Lots of good info here. Yes, I do believe being s strict materialist is a bad thing because it denies the reality of a spiritual life beyond the material world. This leads to errors such as where Hobbes took it. It's ironic that Hobbes and Rousseau had such different and opposed views of human nature but they ended up in the same place, like the Reign of Terror that Rousseau influenced (along with Voltaire). I believe the 10 Commandments are more Natural Law than Eternal Law but then again the Natural Law is a subset of the Eternal Law.
@HippieNinja-lv5lp
17 күн бұрын
@@thethomist I agree that a strictly material life without soul, with spirit, is empty. You are opposed to totalitarianism, it sounds like. Concretely, what would you consider to be Eternal Law? What did St. Thomas say concretely was Eternal Law? When I think of the 10 commandments, say "thou shalt not steal" "thou shalt not kill" & thou shalt not bare false witness" sounds to me like Eternal Law. I kind of stay in my own head, & things have to make sense to me. So I appreciate your comments.
@thethomist
17 күн бұрын
@@HippieNinja-lv5lp Did you watch this video I did on the Four Kinds of Law? I explain each and their relationship with each other in the video.
@jphish8724
Жыл бұрын
This is really confusing in that 2+2=4, science etc is completely different from one man and one woman which is entirely subjective. They seem not at all in the same catagory...
@thethomist
Жыл бұрын
Yes, I can understand how those two can seem to be very different and one can be seen as objective and the other subjective. But that's the point. If God's law ordains marriage to be between one man and one woman, even if one doesn't agree, it's part of the Divine Law and also Eternal Law as something that is true even if some don't agree. Not all Eternal Law truths are empirically verified.
@jphish8724
Жыл бұрын
@@thethomist Thanks, I appreciate the clarification
@bazinit
3 жыл бұрын
Animals are governed by Natural law, whereas humans are governed by either Human positive law or Divine natural law. Human positive law is all written laws such as legislation or the scriptures. Divine natural law is the law of the individual. Divine natural law is where mans positive law is created. In natural law alone, there is no definition of rape, murder or theft hence the word "Divine" The scriptures try to explain the divine, but they are not in themselves the divine, nor is it an act of divinity to follow the word of the scriptures, all written laws are human positive law.
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
Barry, thanks for the comment and information. By animal's natural law I guess we would refer to it as instinct, right? It's a law they're following although they have no awareness that they are following a law. The natural law, as St. Thomas explains, is that which a rational creatures knows naturally to be true or the way one should act. Perhaps this is what you're referring to as 'divine natural law.' I'm not sure what you mean by saying that the Scriptures are 'not in themselves divine.' The Scriptures are the word of God and inerrant, infallible and certainly therefore divine since they have a divine author. You didn't mention the eternal law but perhaps that the easiest to explain. It's all that is true. God bless- Dave
@bazinit
3 жыл бұрын
,@@thethomist I think we have a problem between us with the word "divine", and I think that comes from the fact that we both have a different take on God. All the words you read, whether that be the scriptures or legislation, is dead law, and we know that God isn't with the dead. Following the law's from a book is no more than an animal like trick. the real God implanted law directly into me. If your life is governed by divine law, then there is no need for the scriptures. If you live by man's law, then you will read them and looking for something you will never find. For me, there are only two kinds of law, and when they work together, they create the whole law, the one law. In my world, the word divine has nothing to do with religion. I don't believe any religion has ownership of the scriptures, and the God that is applied to them is a false God. The biblical and rabbinical writings are just written description of the divine. Divine will never be written.
@thethomist
3 жыл бұрын
@@bazinit Thanks for this response and yes, it certainly appears that you and I have a different idea of what 'divine' means. I'm perplexed, however, that you would take the time to write down your thoughts on the divine while at the same time expressing a lack of trust in anything that is written down about God in Scripture or Tradition. Why should I take your written opinion of divine seriously if the only thing I need to consider is that law that has been implanted directly into me? Your opinion would seem meaningless if that's the case? Am I missing something?
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