REVISITING AQUINAS’ NATURAL LAW IN POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY OF THOUGHT

Abstract

This study described the postmodern interpretation of Values and Norms in the new generation. The researchers aimed to defend against their interpretation because of values and norms are important factors in man’s life. To do this paper, the researchers employed the intellectual inquiry on the concept of St. Thomas Aquinas’s Natural Law which is the foundation of his discussion on ethics. While this study served to advance the idea about the contemporary relevance of an ethics of virtue by way of its significantly more detailed explication of morality, the researchers concluded that in order to become a morally upright human person, there’s a need to give a clear emphasis the idea of defense of values and norms which is so significant in studying St. Thomas Aquinas's divine law.