An ongoing debate among natural law theorists concerns the way in which the various basic goods are related to each other. St. Thomas maintains that the ultimate good ofhuman beings is the beatific vision. It follows that any action is good inasmuch as it leads one toward this goal, while an action is evil if it leads one away. Germain Grisez laments the way in which many post-Suarezian or "con...

This article explores the state of the art in theories of special divine action by means of a study of the Divine Action Project (DAP) co-sponsored by the Vatican Observatory and the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences in Berkeley. The basic aim is to introduce the DAP and to summarize its results, especially as these were compiled in the final “capstone” meeting of the DAP, and drawin...

e nature of divine eternality is obscure in both historical andmodern discussions. In a way its obscurity is no surprise, given that the nature of time is so mysterious. But the obscurity is still notable relative to the other traditional divine attributes, which are comparatively much better understood. Our perplexities regarding eternality are compounded, I will argue here, by a failure to re...

A class of signaling games is studied in which a unique Universally Divine equilibrium outcome exists. We identify a monotonicity property under which a variation of Universal Divinity is generically equivalent to strategic stability. Further assumptions guarantee the existence of a unique Universally Divine outcome. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: 021, 022, 026. ‘r 1990 ...

The study deals with the issue of justice in context divine and natural law. starting point is an analysis selected texts from Book Judges, which are linked to Judge Deborah. philosophical interpretation based on distinction between law, main emphasis transcendent nature both types In biblical interpretation, a judge understood as person who does not create only looks at law listens voice God, ...

The Heideggerian account of the ontotheological constitution of Western metaphysics has been extremely influential for contemporary philosophy of religion and for philosophical perspectives on theology and the divine. This paper introduces and contrasts two central strategies for approaching the question of the divine in a nonor post-ontotheological manner. The first and more established approa...

writing was invented in late 4th millennium bc in southern mesopotamia and consequently written documents were produced. legal documents are among the most important documents left to us from ancient mesopotamia. sumerian legal documents allow us to study the formation of law in the earliest urban societies. in this paper we study the edicts of uru-ka-gina (also read iri-ka-gina). old and new i...