Concluding Comments: Prospects and Pitfalls for Natural Law Theory
Concluding Comments: Prospects and Pitfalls for Natural Law Theory
This concluding chapter discusses the prospects and pitfalls of Thomas Aquinas' natural law theory. It highlights the renewed interest in natural law theory in contemporary philosophy of law and suggests that the re-emergence of natural law in both meta-ethics and in jurisprudence indicate the need that more work should be undertaken in these areas and a substantive theory of natural law should be developed. One of the most noted pitfalls of natural law is its close association with morality, which can lead to a repressive system of both law and morality.
Keywords: natural law theory, Thomas Aquinas, philosophy of law, jurisprudence, meta-ethics, morality
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