Relación entre el orden moral y el orden jurídico, a partir del contenido de la ley natural, según Santo Tomás de Aquino: el derecho como parte de la moral y el derecho natural como parte de la ley natural
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2021
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Universidad FASTA. Facultad de Humanidades
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1853-5585
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In Itinere: Revista Digital de Estudios Humanísticos, ene-jun 2021; 11(1); pp. 26-39.
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Entiendo que la modernidad ha causado un gran mal al orden jurídico, al reducirlo a la ley jurídica positiva, despojándolo así de su esencial moralidad, anclada en la ley natural. Así, el derecho ha quedado sujeto al arbitrio del gobernante o del poder de turno, sin ninguna referencia objetiva que permita valorar su esencial condición de justicia. Es mucho lo que se podría decir, y se ha dicho, al respecto. Pero al objeto del presente trabajo conviene solamente recordar lo que Santo Tomás de Aquino (1224/5 - 1274) dice, citando a Isidoro en “Etimologías” (libro 5, cap. 3): El derecho se llama así (jus) porque es justo’. Pero lo justo es objeto de la justicia; pues dice el Filósofo en la Ética, libro 5, cap. 1, que “suele llamarse justo aquel hábito por el cual los justos obran con justicia”. Luego el derecho es el objeto de la justicia (II-II, q. 57, a. 1).
I understand that modernity has caused great harm to the legal order, by reducing it to positive legal law, thus stripping it of its essential morality, anchored in natural law. Thus, the law has been subject to the discretion of the ruler or the power of the day, without any objective reference that allows assessing its essential condition of justice. There is much that could be said, and has been said, about it. But for the purpose of this work, it is only convenient to remember what Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224/5 - 1274) says, quoting Isidore in "Etymologies" (book 5, chap. 3): The law is called like that (jus) because it is just'. But what is just is the object of justice; as the Philosopher says in Ethics, book 5, chap. 1, that "the habit by which the just act with justice is usually called just."
Fil: Penna, Silvano. Universidad FASTA; Argentina.
I understand that modernity has caused great harm to the legal order, by reducing it to positive legal law, thus stripping it of its essential morality, anchored in natural law. Thus, the law has been subject to the discretion of the ruler or the power of the day, without any objective reference that allows assessing its essential condition of justice. There is much that could be said, and has been said, about it. But for the purpose of this work, it is only convenient to remember what Saint Thomas Aquinas (1224/5 - 1274) says, quoting Isidore in "Etymologies" (book 5, chap. 3): The law is called like that (jus) because it is just'. But what is just is the object of justice; as the Philosopher says in Ethics, book 5, chap. 1, that "the habit by which the just act with justice is usually called just."
Fil: Penna, Silvano. Universidad FASTA; Argentina.
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Penna, S. (2021). Relación entre el orden moral y el orden jurídico, a partir del contenido de la ley natural, según Santo Tomás de Aquino: el derecho como parte de la moral y el derecho natural como parte de la ley natural. In Itinere: Revista Digital de Estudios Humanísticos, 11(1), 26-39. https://revistas.ufasta.edu.ar/index.php/initinere/article/view/216