Review article
https://doi.org/10.31192/np.17.3.2
Understanding of Marriage and the Concept of Natural Law
Karol Jasiński
orcid.org/0000-0002-7695-499X
; Faculty of Theology, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Olsztyn, Poland
Abstract
The author of the article set himself two main goals. The first goal was to outline, on the background of a specified definition of marriage, the fundamental changes to which the institution is currently subject (crisis of goals, privatization, divorces, concubinages, same-sex relationships). The second purpose is the presentation of problems related to the recognition of natural law, to which the proponents of traditional understanding of marriage as a union of man and woman appeal. The point of reference was the conviction of a certain relationship between the understanding of marriage and the underlying concept of natural law. Two basic concepts of natural law have been presented: Aristotelian-Thomistic and contemporary, whose consequences are indicated in the conclusions. Both concepts assume a certain understanding of human nature which, in the first case, is treated as static (the spiritual-physical structure) and, in the second case, as dynamic (intelligent freedom).
Keywords
marriage; human nature; natural law; freedom; conscience
Hrčak ID:
228401
URI
Publication date:
25.11.2019.
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