The Natural Law and Morality

The natural law is concerned with the human part of the universe and describes our movements through free deliberate choices aimed at the achievement of our good. Human beings pursue the natural goods through their natural abilities and powers, powers like thinking or locomotion. Those powers work best when they are rightly disposed towards their objects. And the right disposition of those powers is what Aquinas calls virtues. He says that the natural law includes the acts that are in accordance with all the virtues. So virtue 2 is part of the natural law. We can see now that there is a rather simple synonym for natural law. Morality is the way of talking about morality, about what human beings should do to fulfill the possibilities