
Does Nature Make Laws? An Introduction to the Natural Law Tradition | Prof. Joshua Hochschild
The Thomistic Institute
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Is There a Law of Gravity?
Something is natural to the extent that it bears an intrinsic order or tendency. Gravity and growth and generation are powers which act in and through particular kinds of bodies. Scientists, on this view, do not discover the actual intelligibility of natural activity. This has obvious implications for the notion of law. To think of nature as intelligible thus helps us to clarify the sense in which the forms in things determining their ends could be conceived as expressions of law.
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