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Linked to the above is a problem which results from the fact that the creators of any laws in society are, in Hart’s words, ‘men not gods’. This means that they have certain limitations which include: • Relative ignorance of fact that is, it is never possible, when creating a law to deal with a particular situation, to be absolutely certain that one has included and covered all material issues and the various possible combinations of such issues which may confront anyone seeking to use the law to resolve problems and disputes at a subsequent stage.
Mainly this was the work of St Thomas Aquinas (1224–74). 26 CAVENDISH LAWCARDS Aquinas’ four categories of law Aquinas divided law into four categories: • Eternal law—which constitutes God’s rational guidance of all created things and is derived from the divine wisdom and based on a divine plan. • Divine law—that part of eternal law which is manifested through revelations in the Christian scriptures. • Natural law—which describes the participation of rational creatures in the eternal law through the operation of reason.
An act may have no more significance than that which can be derived from its mere occurrence, for example, the act of picking up a stone and throwing it at a wall may mean only that—the simple physical act of employing one’s musculature in the physical elevation of a solid piece of matter and forcefully propelling it in a certain direction with the intention that it collide with another, larger piece of solid matter. This is the subjective meaning of the act, and if there were no law against this sort of activity then no more would be thought of it, and the matter would lie where it fell.
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