Name: Wilson Coimbra Lemke
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 29/03/2022
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Jorge Augusto da Silva Santos | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Jorge Augusto da Silva Santos | Advisor * |
| Marcus Paulo Rycembel Boeira | External Examiner * |
| Ricardo Luiz Silveira da Costa | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: In Section I of Part II of the Summa Theologica, question 90, article 2, St. Thomas Aquinas deals with the final cause of the law, namely: the common good. Some scholars, however, considering the ethical and political theory of the great medieval Doctor as separable from his theology of the ultimate end of human life, deny that God is the only ultimate end of all legislation. We must, therefore, consider immanence and transcendence in Santo Tomáss Treatise on Law. And in this regard, the following question is asked: is the law always directed to God, as to its only ultimate end? To answer it, we used the method of lectio Thomista, in which the letter of that article is commented, dividing it into lessons. It is, therefore, an exposition of syllogistic sentences produced as a lesson, and not as a paraphrase, a common exposition model widespread in 13th century Scholasticism. This commentary, which results from reading, analyzing and synthesizing article 2, question 90, of Section I of Part II of the Summa Theologica, is divided into two parts. The first consists of an introduction to St. The second part consists of an in-depth commentary with textual discussions on article 2, of question 90, of the same work, WHERE it is discussed whether the law is always ordered to the common good. At the end of this exposition, it follows that every law is always ordained to God, as its only ultimate end, and that all other common goods that are not the supreme common good, first desired as the ultimate and perfect end of every law, cannot be in relation to this but intermediate means or ends.
