The Catholic Church holds the view of natural law introduced by Albertus Magnus and elaborated by Thomas Aquinas, particularly in his Summa Theologiae, and often as filtered through the School of Salamanca.
The Natural Law Tradition in Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
Even though we have already confined ‘natural law theory’
to its use as a term that marks off a certain class of ethical
theories, we still have a confusing variety of meanings to contend
with. Some writers use the term with such a broad meaning that any
moral theory that is a version of moral r... Read more
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Interesting… “my freedom to swing my arms about my person ends before it gets to your chin”
The Catholic Church holds the view of natural law introduced by Albertus Magnus and elaborated by Thomas Aquinas, particularly in his Summa Theologiae, and often as filtered through the School of Salamanca.