John Chrysostom on natural law

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It is, that when God formed man, he implanted within him from the beginning a natural law. And what then was this natural law? He gave utterance to conscience within us; and made the knowledge of good things, and of those which are the contrary, to be self-taught. For we have no need to learn that fornication is an evil thing, and that chastity is a good thing, but we know this from the first. ...

For more, see John Chrysostom on natural law.
 
It is, that when God formed man, he implanted within him from the beginning a natural law. And what then was this natural law? He gave utterance to conscience within us; and made the knowledge of good things, and of those which are the contrary, to be self-taught. For we have no need to learn that fornication is an evil thing, and that chastity is a good thing, but we know this from the first. ...

For more, see John Chrysostom on natural law.
I like that he seems to make natural law intuition which seems to be the best way to view it, along with an inductive method of exploring the principles of natural law. Great post as usual.
 
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