LISTEN TO Anthony Kenny on Aquinas
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November 12, 2012
Click here to listen to Anthony Kenny consider the place of law in Aquinas' ethics (from 6 minutes in). Natural law is contrasted with Kant and the Utiltarians. Should you always obey your conscience? Not necessarily as conscience can be ill-informed. Did Tony Blair do right in following his conscience over the Iraq war? Do you ahve to be a Christian to follow Natural law? No, argues Kenny. Natural Theology doesn't require God in the same way as revealed theology, (14 minutes).
Summa Contra Gentiles is also discussed – how Aquinas believed that a discourse with Jews and Muslims is possible on the basis of reason alone.
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