St. Thomas Aquinas Of The Personalist / Natural Law Ethics

This semester has felt as being in a roller coaster, despite of some of the theories having similarities, one cannot said that one theory is the same to another. For the reason, I personality felt as every time that there was a new theory introduced, I tried to see how it applied to my life. As the different theories were presented in our Ethical Theory class, the theory that stood out and reignited the most is St. Thomas Aquinas of the personalist /natural law ethics. St. Thomas Aquinas natural laws theory developed from a non-Christian that was Aristotle. Despite many of many Catholic theologian did not agree with St. Thomas Aquinas due to his agreement with Aristotle, but St. Aquinas would become one of the most influential theologian in Christianity history. His theory on natural law started to first defining law in general. For example, the key aspect of his definition is that, â€Å"law is something pertaining to reason.†(Aquinas, p.3) This was a key point that was a dev elopment from what St. Aquinas had understood from Aristotle that not mattering what the issues were there had to be law that had to refer to reason, as characteristic human function. Also, there are some essential to a law that St. Aquinas recognized which are an ordinance of reason, directed to the common good, made by one who has care of the community, and promulgated. Furthermore, the characteristic human function, Aquinas begins to develop a more concrete theory of his own in regard to laws that is,