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1、TheWesternAustralianJuristVol.1,2010ARISTOTLE’SINFLUENCEONTHENATURALLAWTHEORYOFSTTHOMASAQUINASSIMONAVIERUAbstractThispaperwillcompareAristotle’sNaturalLawtheorywithStThomasAquinas’NaturalLawtheoryinordertoexaminetheextentofAristotle’sinfluenceontheNaturalLawtheoryofAquinas.Byfo

2、cusingonthecontextofeachphilosopher,theauthorwillarguethat,althoughAquinaswasprofoundlyinfluencedbyAristotelianideas,hewasnota‘blindworshipper’ofAristotle.Ultimately,AquinasemployedAristotelianNaturalLawphilosophyonlytotheextentitassistedhimtovalidatetheChristiandoctrineandtheex

3、istenceofGod.IINTRODUCTION1Philosophersoftentestanddeveloptheideasoftheirpredecessors.AfamousexampleisthatofStThomasAquinas(1225-1274AD)drawingontheworkofAristotle(384-322BC).However,didStThomasAquinasplunderAristotle’sideaswhenwritinghisseminalwork,theSummaTheologiae?Aristotlea

4、ndStThomasAquinasarerecognisedaskeycontributorstoclassicalNatural2Lawjurisprudence.NaturalLawtheoryinvolvesevaluationofthecontentoflaws3againstmoral,orinAquinas’case,evenspiritualprinciples.NaturalLawadvancesa45metaphysicalinquiry,andisconcernedwithissuessuchasman’smoralobligati

5、onsas6acitizenandthelimitsoflawfulgovernmentaction.BSc(Physiotherapy),CurtinUniversityofTechnology;finalyearBachelorofLaws(Graduate)studentatMurdochUniversity;receivedViceChancellor’sAwardforAcademicExcellence(2008),MurdochUniversity.1ndStevenCahn(ed),ExploringPhilosophy:AnIntr

6、oductoryAnthology(OxfordUniversityPress,2ed,2000)7,13.2Plato(c429-347)andCicero(106-43BC)alsomadesignificantcontributionstoNaturalLawtheory.SeePlato,Laws(BenjaminJowetttrans,ForgottenBooks,2008)bookIV.SeealsoMarcusTulliusCicero,TheRepublicandTheLaws(CDYongetrans,Digireads.com,20

7、09).3BrianBix,‘NaturalLaw:TheModernTradition’inJulesColemanandScottShapiro(eds),TheOxfordHandbookofJurisprudenceandPhilosophyofLaw(OxfordUniversityPress,2002)61,62,66.4BrianBix,ADictionaryofLegalTheory(OxfordUniversityPress,2004)135.‘Metaphysics’is‘anyinquirybeyondtheempirical,r

8、eachingthemostbasicandabstractquestionsofthough