Aquinas and Aristotle’s View of Law

There are six articles that he uses to descibe law and in these articles there are seven key elements that are given. These elements are as follows: 1- Conscience, 2- Precepts/Reason, 3 – Virtue, 4 – Inclined by Nature, 5 – consensus gentium (everywhere reflected), 6 – Unchanging, and 7 – In-hearts/Inaliable. All of these elements set such huge standards for living and dealing with law that they are hard to follow.
He begins his talk of natural law in the First Article of Question 94 by discussing where or not natural law is a habit or not. He first gives a couple examples for and against it being a habit and then he gives his answer to the question. “I answer that a thing may be called a habit in two ways. First, properly and essentially, and thus the natural law is not a habit. For it has been stated that the natural law is something that has been appointed by reason.” Aquinas then shifts his talk to whether or not natural law contains many precepts or ju...