Welcome to episode six of our Aquinas and Natural Law series! Discover how Aquinas resolves moral conflict with the Doctrine of Double Effect. Check out the series: ruclips.net/p/PL85Fs8yMgt8r3EN3XMJjeh-Jj5LmR1mZx Next week: "Aquinas on Abortion"!
I now feel that I could have explained the fourth condition better than I did. "There must be a proportionately grave reason for permitting the bad effect". The grave reason is that you're going to die if you don't act. Your action of self-defence is proportionate because you are fighting for your life. Your act would NOT be proportionate if, say, you killed someone in "self-defence" who was trying to poke you.
@authenticallysuperficial9874 ... in this case I point it out because it is the title of his highest achievement. In the same way that someone knighted is refered to as Sir, PhD's are referred to as Doctor in common parlance, etc. Saint Thomas Aquinas would have borne many titles in his lifetime, Brother Thomas, Father Thomas and possibly others. During his depth of exploration as a Dominican Friar in the Roman Catholic church he endeavored to write many great works, most notably the summa theologica. Because of his propensity for deep thought inside of his own Dominican Order he was seen as an outcast and was often ridiculed. Still he persisted, despite his own brother monks calling him a Donkey. As he set in his room, night after night, writing in solitude and silence the documents that would define the most comprehensive view on natural order and supernatural order he did so in the name of our very ownenlightenment now nearly a millenia later. During his embattled life he suffered and battled for his ideas to be heard. And in his life's battles he saw success in the recognition and adoption of his writings as accepted magisterium by the church. In the end he would see his writings fall to a level of insignificance in his own view of them as he started to see more and more, through miraculous partitions, his relationship with Christ. As such he left Summa Theologica unfinished, and said of him by his leadership to his brother monks before his dying, "The braying of that donkey will echo for centuries after your names have been forgotten." Upon his death, inside of the Dominican order was raised a review process for cannonisation, being brought to the bishops of the Church it was reviewed, and following due process his life was considered to be the miraculous reflection of a life lived in service of christ, elevated by God, and exemplary as such to be recognized as deserving of the title of Saint. I feel in the light of which, we could consider bestowing on him the title Saint which he has well earned.
in the case of a Christian defending their own life there is a case to be made that defending one's own life does not pass point 4, because saving one's own life, if you are living a life of repentance, is not proportionately more grave than ending the life of a sinner without giving them the chance to repent. the counter argument of course is that the value of future works of the Christian and their responsibilities outweigh the damnation of the attacker, but only God can truly know.
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Welcome to episode six of our Aquinas and Natural Law series! Discover how Aquinas resolves moral conflict with the Doctrine of Double Effect.
Check out the series: ruclips.net/p/PL85Fs8yMgt8r3EN3XMJjeh-Jj5LmR1mZx
Next week: "Aquinas on Abortion"!
I now feel that I could have explained the fourth condition better than I did. "There must be a proportionately grave reason for permitting the bad effect". The grave reason is that you're going to die if you don't act. Your action of self-defence is proportionate because you are fighting for your life. Your act would NOT be proportionate if, say, you killed someone in "self-defence" who was trying to poke you.
SAINT Thomas Aquinas.
What is a saint
@authenticallysuperficial9874 ... in this case I point it out because it is the title of his highest achievement. In the same way that someone knighted is refered to as Sir, PhD's are referred to as Doctor in common parlance, etc. Saint Thomas Aquinas would have borne many titles in his lifetime, Brother Thomas, Father Thomas and possibly others. During his depth of exploration as a Dominican Friar in the Roman Catholic church he endeavored to write many great works, most notably the summa theologica. Because of his propensity for deep thought inside of his own Dominican Order he was seen as an outcast and was often ridiculed. Still he persisted, despite his own brother monks calling him a Donkey. As he set in his room, night after night, writing in solitude and silence the documents that would define the most comprehensive view on natural order and supernatural order he did so in the name of our very ownenlightenment now nearly a millenia later. During his embattled life he suffered and battled for his ideas to be heard. And in his life's battles he saw success in the recognition and adoption of his writings as accepted magisterium by the church. In the end he would see his writings fall to a level of insignificance in his own view of them as he started to see more and more, through miraculous partitions, his relationship with Christ. As such he left Summa Theologica unfinished, and said of him by his leadership to his brother monks before his dying, "The braying of that donkey will echo for centuries after your names have been forgotten."
Upon his death, inside of the Dominican order was raised a review process for cannonisation, being brought to the bishops of the Church it was reviewed, and following due process his life was considered to be the miraculous reflection of a life lived in service of christ, elevated by God, and exemplary as such to be recognized as deserving of the title of Saint.
I feel in the light of which, we could consider bestowing on him the title Saint which he has well earned.
What if an evil life is saved?
in the case of a Christian defending their own life there is a case to be made that defending one's own life does not pass point 4, because saving one's own life, if you are living a life of repentance, is not proportionately more grave than ending the life of a sinner without giving them the chance to repent. the counter argument of course is that the value of future works of the Christian and their responsibilities outweigh the damnation of the attacker, but only God can truly know.
is not a proportionately grave justification*
one can only live through it and pray very deeply, that by the grace of God they can live a life to justify the graveness of the action taken.
@@timothylolcats8020 Does not an evil person also have a right to self-defense?