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SUMMARY:Natural Law: God's Law in our Hearts - Dr Peter Bussey
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DESCRIPTION:Human beings possess a sense of basic morality that is similar
  in cultures worldwide. This may be termed 'Natural Law'\, and St Paul ref
 erred to even the gentiles as having 'God's Law in their hearts'. However
 \, the standard Western presentation of the subject by Thomas Aquinas face
 s two major modern challenges. One concerns the objective validity of mora
 l law of any kind. An examination of this question leads to the familiar c
 onclusion that God's authority is required for absolute moral values and o
 bligations. A second challenge comes from the scientific picture of humans
  emerging from an amoral animal kingdom - but we are moral beings. The iss
 ues here are discussed with reference to evolutionary theory\, palaeontolo
 gy and anthropology\, and seem to be resolved best if God acted directly i
 n human history\, perhaps in the Palaeolithic period. I examine some impl
 ications of Natural Law in current human affairs.
LOCATION:Shasha Suite\, Woolf Building\, Westminster College
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