According to Aquinas the point of ethics is to discover the essence of each aspect of creation and then pursue actions that promote the flourishing of that essence. This also affirms evolution and natural selection. Evolution seen through reason, and before that seen with the intuitive intellect, needs to be transmuted into the Church. Both empirically-minded reason and the non empirically-minded intellect can come together to define evolution in natural law.
For example, we can say that life seeks God by way of biological evolution as well as by seeking God through the Traditional involutionary methods of prayer and meditation (the Twofold Path). The finer points of evolution can enlarge ends and means within natural law. Political philosophy can affirm subsidiarity, federalism, variety, and constitutional liberty on the bases of the natural law defined in evolution. We are all on the path to Godhood.
For example, we can say that life seeks God by way of biological evolution as well as by seeking God through the Traditional involutionary methods of prayer and meditation (the Twofold Path). The finer points of evolution can enlarge ends and means within natural law. Political philosophy can affirm subsidiarity, federalism, variety, and constitutional liberty on the bases of the natural law defined in evolution. We are all on the path to Godhood.
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