Necessity and Liberty: Natural Law in the work of Ángel Amor Ruibal

Abstract

Natural Law constitutes the touchstone for the foundation of morality according to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, whose interpretation raises many questions in regard to different environments —even within the Church itself— particularly due to the consequences that are derived when we apply this interpretation to concrete moral issues. In spite of this, natural law can be a very useful concept, which is made evident to us in the conception held by the author we are going to study: Amor Ruibal. His theory, based in the universal correlation, proposes an unusual interpretation which points out that natural law is neither an abstract nor a biological term, but that it is also, first of all, an appeal to our self-realization as free human beings living in a world that does not belong to us.