Because I hope that I was truer to natural reason; but chiefly because God had given me such an amount of infused lights and graces that I was forced to seek a guide or go off into extravagant fanaticism.
But if he comes to the Church through the working and the results of natural reason, it is light all the way, and to the very end.
Even so, it uses them not because of any defect of its own, but because of the defectiveness of our intellect which is more easily conducted (manuducitur) by natural reason to the things above reason which this science teaches.
From that springs the Lex naturalis, ordained to rest on the participation of man, as a rational creature, in the moral order which he perceives by the light of natural reason.
But faith is nothing else than confidence in the reality of the subjective in opposition to the limitations or laws of Nature and reason,--that is, of natural reason.
The older theologians said that the essential attributes of God as God were made manifest by the light of natural reason.
Faith unfetters the wishes of subjectivity from the bonds of natural reason; it confers what Nature and reason deny; hence it makes man happy, for it satisfies his most personal wishes.
Now matters of faith, surpass man's natural reason, since they are things unseen as stated above (Q.
I answer that, The articles of faith stand in the same relation to the doctrine of faith, as self-evident principles to a teaching based on natural reason.
Whether it is necessary to believe those things that are attainable by natural reason?
And as there is no special edict prescribing the just causes for which war may be undertaken, the determination of them is left to the discovery of natural reason.
There is a natural reason also, which renders the sea, considered in the view already taken, incapable of being made property: because occupancy can never subsist, but in things that can be confined to certain permanent bounds.
Besides, I do not doubt that every one will see that such a method only requires the aid of natural reason.
Thus the Psalmist implies that the light of natural reason, whereby we discern what is good and bad, which is the function of the Natural Law, is nothing else than an imprint on us of the divine light.
The medium through which the above objects are known (objectum formale quo) is the light of natural reason illuminated by faith studying the sources of divine revelation and deducing conclusions from doctrines revealed by God.
It was as the rational and temperate defender of the Church against the attacks of the Lollards in general that he formulated the principle of natural reason as against scripturalism.
That God should be able to do this is by no means incredible to natural reason.
Having thus shown that the resurrection is not a thing incredible to natural reason, I should now proceed to show the certainty of it from divine revelation.
And why should he appeal to them concerning the credibility of this matter if it be a thing incredible to natural reason?
Ceremonial, however, or external reverence, is not due to the dictates of natural reason.
That he should do precisely this or that, however, does not come from the dictates of natural reason, but from Divine or human positive law.
But it is due to the dictates of natural reason that a man does certain things in order to show reverence to God.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural reason" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
