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St. Thomas Aquinas -- Summa TheologicaePart II, I, Q. 94 The Natural Law
A note on this text:
This is a selection from the the Summa Theologicaof St. Thomas Aquinas, Second and Revised Edition, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province,1920. This translation is now in the public domain. Article 2
Whether the natural law contains several precepts, or only one?
... As Boethius says (De Hebdom.), certain axioms or propositions are universally self-evident to all; and such are those propositions whose terms are known to all, as, "Every whole is greater than its part," and, "Things equal to one and the same are equal to one another." But some propositions are self-evident only to the wise, who understand the meaning of the terms of such propositions: thus to one who understands that an angel is not a body, it is self-evident that an angel is not circum…
St. Thomas Aquinas -- Summa TheologicaePart II, I, Q. 94 The Natural Law
A note on this text:
This is a selection from the the Summa Theologicaof St. Thomas Aquinas, Second and Revised Edition, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province,1920. This translation is now in the public domain. Article 2
Whether the natural law contains several precepts, or only one?
... As Boethius says (De Hebdom.), certain axioms or propositions are universally self-evident to all; and such are those propositions whose terms are known to all, as, "Every whole is greater than its part," and, "Things equal to one and the same are equal to one another." But some propositions are self-evident only to the wise, who understand the meaning of the terms of such propositions: thus to one who understands that an angel is not a body, it is self-evident that an angel is not circum…
