期刊名称：Alpha Omega : rivista di filosofia e teologia dell'Ateneo Pontificio Regina Apostolorum
出版年度：2005
卷号：VIII
期号：2
出版社：Athenaeum Pontificium Regina Apostolorum
摘要：Because he possesses free will, the human person needs practical criteria in order to act rationally and freely. The natural law, a participation in God´s eternal law written into man´s nature, provides practical guidance so that the person can act well and attain his true end of happiness and union with God. Through synderesis, a natural habit of practical reason, the person grasps the first principles of practical reason and understands that he is to do good and avoid evil. Man´s natural tendencies indicate basic human goods, which must be rationally pursued and integrated into one´s overall good. Yet morality is not first and foremost about man´s relationship with perfective goods, but with other persons who must be treated as ends rather than means. The precepts of the natural law treat chiefly of questions of justice and man´s relationship with God and his fellows. Thus the natural moral law deals particularly with justice and love, and also relies on man´s natural grasp of the dignity of persons, understood as an excellence meriting special regard.
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