{"product_id":"the-light-that-binds-a-study-in-thomas-aquinass-metaphysics-of-natural-law-hardcover","title":"The Light That Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStephen L. Brock\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf there is any one author in the history of moral thought who has come to be associated with the idea of natural law, it is Saint Thomas Aquinas. Many things have been written about Aquinas's natural law teaching, and from many different perspectives. The aim of this book is to help see it from his own perspective. That is why the focus is metaphysical. Aquinas's whole moral doctrine is laden with metaphysics, and his natural law teaching especially so, because it is all about first principles. The book centers on how Aquinas thinks the first principles of practical reason, which for him are what make up natural law, function as laws. It is a controversial question, and the book engages a variety of readers of Aquinas, including Francisco Suarez, Jacques Maritain, prominent analytical philosophers, Straussians, and the initiators of the New Natural Law theory. Among the issues addressed are the relation between natural law and natural inclination, how far natural law depends on knowledge of human nature, what its obligatory force consists in, and, above all, how it is related to what for Aquinas is the first principle of all being, the divine will.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eStephen L. Brock is Ordinary Professor of Medieval Philosophy at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eAction and Conduct: Thomas Aquinas and the Theory of Action \u003c\/i\u003e(1998), \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Saint Thomas Aquinas: A Sketch \u003c\/i\u003e(2015), and numerous scholarly articles on Aquinas's thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 294\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 30, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52723972243763,"sku":"9781532647307","price":70.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/VDc1SmsyTzR3M0IvR1ljbW5obzBJUT09.webp?v=1763679556","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-light-that-binds-a-study-in-thomas-aquinass-metaphysics-of-natural-law-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}