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    Aquinas on the Natural Inclination of Man to Offer Sacrifice to God
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 86 185-200. 2012.
    Aquinas says that offering sacrifice to God is “of the natural law” because man has a “natural inclination that he should tender submission and honor” to God . Aquinas’s characterization of sacrifice as natural undermines two common mischaracterizations of Aquinas’s natural law theory: that “natural inclinations” means pre-rational “urges” generally and that natural law pertains exclusively to secular matters. For Aquinas, inclinatio naturalis in the sense proper to natural law means those incli…Read more
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    Aquinas on the Natural Inclination of Man to Offer Sacrifice to God
    Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association 86 185-200. 2012.
    Aquinas says that offering sacrifice to God is “of the natural law” because man has a “natural inclination that he should tender submission and honor” to God. Aquinas’s characterization of sacrifice as natural undermines two common mischaracterizations of Aquinas’s natural law theory: that “natural inclinations” means pre-rational “urges” generally and that natural law pertains exclusively to secular matters. For Aquinas, inclinatio naturalis in the sense proper to natural law means those inclin…Read more