Aquinas: Treatise on Law•Grade 8•dialectic Stage
What Is Law?
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What You'll Learn
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Comprehension
Recalls Aquinas's claim: law is something pertaining to reason
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Cause & Consequence
Explains why law must be an ordinance of reason (not mere will)
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Meaning
Connects to implications for tyrannical law (commands that lack reason)
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Defense
Identifies what is strongest about the counterargument
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