Question

How did Thomas Aquinas’s idea of natural law influence the lawmakers and philosophers of the Enlightenment?

Answer 1

The answer to the question is:

~B. It helped them reconsider the role of government and the importance of individual rights.

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Answer 2

Thomas Aquinas’s idea of natural law influenced the lawmakers and philosophers of the Enlightenment since it helped them reconsider the role of government and the importance of individual rights. Option B is correct.

Saint Thomas Aquinas OP was an Italian Dominican friar, Philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church. He is an  significant philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is remembered as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis,