Law: Abiding in Truth - The True Value of the Law - 1st Term 1st Year PDF

THY 1: THRISTIAN VISIONS OF THE HUMAN PERSON LAW: ABIDING IN TRUTH - THE TRUE VALUE OF THE LAW Ms. Emma Lyn Dela Santa | 1ST TERM | 1ST YEAR A.Y. 2024-2025...

THY 1: THRISTIAN VISIONS OF THE HUMAN PERSON LAW: ABIDING IN TRUTH - THE TRUE VALUE OF THE LAW Ms. Emma Lyn Dela Santa | 1ST TERM | 1ST YEAR A.Y. 2024-2025 “Universal Happiness of All Men” Disclaimer: This reviewer is only a supplementary material and It presupposes the promotion of and not a lecture equivalent. You may use it for your perusal but respect for the dignity and true freedom of NEVER for redistribution. All of the contents are sourced from the each person. lectures of (Name) and (Name). It should also foster the well-being and authentic development of the community LESSON OVERVIEW itself. I. What is a Just Law? II. Kinds of Law ON THE MORAL LAWS Importance: ○ Gives direction to man’s activities towards the ultimate end. Reason why the need to conform: WHAT IS A JUST LAW? ○ Moral laws in a narrower meaning “Is an ordinance of reason, properly are promulgated and decreed by competent ○ directives of obligations. authority for the sake of the common good.” – St. Thomas Aquinas KINDS OF LAW Law is an ordinance of reason directed towards the good and promulgated by ETERNAL LAW the competent authority. The plan of the Divine Wisdom as to ORDINANCE OF REASON directing all actions and movements in the universe. Came from the word Ordinare; Ordinantia Unchangeable. which means to put in order Planned in Eternity. Contains a decisive command to perform Eg. The creation of the Universe, Angels (Ordinance). and everything that exists in the mind of A good law is a product of careful and God. serious deliberation. According to St. Thomas Aquinas It should not be based merely on whim, ○ Eternal Law is the plan flowing from emotions or sentiments of an individual or God’s wisdom which directs all group. actions and movements. According to St. Augustine PROPERLY PROMULGATED ○ Eternal Law is the Divine reason and/or It must be clearly communicated to all the will of God Himself commanding people concerned. the preservation of the natural law and Ignorantia juris neminem excusat: forbidding its disturbance. Ignorance of the Law is not an excuse. DECREED BY COMPETENT AUTHORITY NATURAL LAW Only persons with legitimate authority Participation of human beings to the have the power to create and implement plan of divine wisdom. Reflects the laws for their respective communities. eternal law. It is knowable through human reason. FOR THE SAKE OF THE COMMON GOOD It is the set of rights and obligations that arise from our basic dignity as persons. Common good – Sum total of benefits by individuals from the government and from the nation as whole. MADE BY: JHAJJ | THY 1 | 1  THY1: CHRISTIAN VISION OF THE HUMAN PERSON CHRIST AS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD PROF. EMMA LYN DELA SANTA | 1ST TERM | 1ST YEAR A.Y. 2024-2025 When people choose the good, they flourish PROPERTIES OF THE NATURAL LAW precisely as natural law scholars argue humans are meant to flourish. Universal ○ Ex. the Golden Rule, treat others as you ○ Binds all men at all times and in all want to be treated yourself, all religions places, for it is the very nature of and cultures have this rule. Everyone men. has the ability to understand this ○ Common to all people. principle regardless of the laws they ○ Eg. Gravity, Sunrise, Sunsets, are governed by. Evaporation, Conception, growing Also possesses the idea that people share old, dying, etc. inherent morality, which limits the power Indispensable of the state. ○ Man has no authority over natural law. Natural law is more authoritative than ○ God is the source of natural law. man made law and more binded by the ○ Dispensation from natural laws are conscience. violations of the divinely willed order. Key Insight: If man made laws are morally ○ God may allow exceptions from binding, they must align with what people’s natural law, as long as this does not reason tells them is right or wrong. contradict God’s own nature. For Acts as a moral restriction on the power of example the miracles. the state. Though Natural law affirms that Immutability and Dynamic the state has legitimate responsibilities, it ○ Immutable: also places limits around the exercise of ○ Unchangeable those powers. ○ It will exist as long as human nature exists. WATCH FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING: Dynamic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmeMmFe ○ Changes in the condition of man EbSA results in modified or new demands of the Natural Law. REVEALED LAW ○ Man himself and his conditions of existence change. The Old Law ○ Its moral prescriptions are summed up in the Ten Commandments or FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLE OF THE NATURAL LAW AND ETHICS Decalogue. The New Law Do good avoid evil.’ ○ The Laws revealed to us by Jesus ‘Do unto others as you want others do unto during His public ministry. you.’ ○ By teaching us to return to its very core- LOVE. ESSENTIAL NATURAL LAW (THE FRASER ○ The Law of the Lilies (Mt 22:37-40) INSTITUTE) ○ “Metanoia” The view that all humans possess reason. ○ A change of Heart and minds of the Whatever the religion is, all humans have people. the ability to know the difference between good and evil. HUMAN LAW Ex. People inherently know that harming It is a directive of obligatory, general and someone is wrong. stable character for the common good Natural law also holds that all humans promulgated by one who is in charge of a possess freewill and thus can choose to do sovereign society. good and avoid evil. PROPERTIES MADE BY: JHAJJ | THY 1 | 2  THY1: CHRISTIAN VISION OF THE HUMAN PERSON CHRIST AS THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD PROF. EMMA LYN DELA SANTA | 1ST TERM | 1ST YEAR A.Y. 2024-2025 Enforceable ○ To receive the Holy Eucharist during ○ has the coercive power of Easter Time. the law ○ To contribute to the support of the Concerned with external conduct only Church. ○ external compliance with the law ○ To never violate laws concerning suffices to secure the social order marriage. and the common good. Limited to particular groups ○ human laws oblige only those who are members of the community for which the laws are enacted. Historically conditioned ○ human laws change as societies and civilizations change. Has presumptive obligatory force, but is open to expectations and dispensation, in contradiction to natural law. presumption favors the duty to obey the law CIVIL LAW Are man made laws/decrees that bind all citizens of a nation. Promulgated by civil authorities. Highly encouraged to be in line with the Universal Values, Gospel and The Social Teachings. eg. Constitution, Family Code, Labour Code, Bill of Rights. CHURCH LAW Also known as Ecclesiastical Law. It’s an expression of Christ’s laws of love in particular circumstances of Christian Living. Promulgated by Ecclesiastical Authorities. the Canon Law. ○ The compilation of church laws The Six Commandments of the Church: ○ To hear mass on Sundays and Holy Days of Obligation. ○ To fast and abstain on the days appointed. ○ To confess at least once a year. MADE BY: JHAJJ | THY 1 | 3