Commentaria in libros Aristotelis de caelo et mundo
Thomas Aquinas
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Alan: In its medieval heyday, the presumed definability of The Natural Order was a useful touchstone for determining "the nature of The Good."
In many ways, it still is.
However, Aquinas, the great champion of The Natural Order, died in 1274 A.D. Like his contemporaries, this remarkable Dominican was unaware of The Bell Curve, "deviation from the mean" and other rudimentary statistical norms that undergird the science that make modern life possible.
In the Middle Ages, it was natural that "normality" be defined by superstititious, parochial people -- living their entire lives within a 25 mile radius of their birthplace -- people who had reason to believe that what they "saw" in their daily lives was "normal" and that any departure from "normality" was an immoral contradiction (if not a perverse breach) of The Natural Order.
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Notably, the Latin word "mores," from which "moral" and "immoral" derive, means "customs" or "habit."
By definition, the medieval view of "normality" was "customary" and "habitual" - essentially an unthinking "reflex."
"Trial By Ordeal: The Bloody Old Testamental Roots Of Modern Justice"
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"Trial By Ordeal: Alive And Well Into The 17th Century"
By definition, the medieval view of "normality" was "customary" and "habitual" - essentially an unthinking "reflex."
But we now know (taking just one example of epistemological progress) that hundreds of mammalian species, living within "The Natural Order," exhibit homosexual behavior, and that 3% - 7% of every human population is homosexual. (It bears mention that in my own life I have experienced a sexually excited male rottweiler "humping" my leg in an act of cross-species homosexuality.)
List Of Animals Displaying Homosexual Behavior
In light of truth's ongoing revelation, it is necessary to redefine The Natural Order to include "standard deviations from the mean" and to position these "standard" "deviations" within the matrix of "normality" itself.
Such deviations have always been embedded in The Natural Order but were often unseen and routinely denied when they did "come to light."
In brief, The Natural Order includes many behaviors-and-phenomena that were once deemed diabolical intrusions into God's "good creation."
Such deviations have always been embedded in The Natural Order but were often unseen and routinely denied when they did "come to light."
In brief, The Natural Order includes many behaviors-and-phenomena that were once deemed diabolical intrusions into God's "good creation."
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