LAW LJU4801

THOMAS AQUINAS: NATURAL LAW Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) was born in what is now central Italy, and spent his life as a priest and scholar in the Roman Catholic Church. His most famous work is the voluminous Summa Theologica, which contains an influential account of natural law. In brief, God embeds various values within our natural instincts, which we discover through reason; these provide the substance of both our morals and laws. Part of Aquinas’s motivation is to explain why natural ...

Question 1 Cockrel’s article aims to assess the jurisprudence of the Constitutional Court of South Africa through the judgments which were handed down during the year of 1995. His article focuses on the one word, according to him “which resonates like a 'leitmotiv' throughout the judgments of the Court” over that year, the word 'values'. Cockrel argues that the explicit intrusion of constitutional values into the adjudicative process signals a transition from a 'formal vision of...