Can morality be legislated?

A renowned Christian philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas harmonizes faith and reason binding Christian and Greek thoughts. He believed in a natural law of inherent goodness and naturalness from God, which provides the basis for politics and morality. According to Aquinas (2002)

“To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.”

Aquinas believed in morals to bring order to one’s own action and will, based on his theory that involves both principles of rules about how to act and virtues. Aquinas (2002) states that

“Human beings are by their nature social and political, living in community even more than every other animal.”

Considering what Aquinas’s thoughts brought to us, morality can be legislated based on his theory of natural order. Furthermore, humankind creates the significance of right and wrong, which we call nowadays moral sense. We don’t know how and when this moral sense was created, but it undeniably originated across early cultures. It leads us to believe that this moral sense has been ruling human beings in different ways for centuries, no matter if some think it came from God or the natural order. Concluding that it is not a question if we can; however, when we started?

References

Aquinas, T. (2002). Political Writings. Posts and Telecommunications Press.