naa a22 4500 510723918 CHVBK 20180411082928.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s13347-013-0110-2 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s13347-013-0110-2 Dainow Brandt National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland aut What Can a Medieval Friar Teach Us About the Internet? Deriving Criteria of Justice for Cyberlaw from Thomist Natural Law Theory [Elektronische Daten] [Brandt Dainow] This paper applies a very traditional position within Natural Law Theory to Cyberspace. I shall first justify a Natural Law approach to Cyberspace by exploring the difficulties raised by the Internet to traditional principles of jurisprudence and the difficulties this presents for a Positive Law Theory account of legislation of Cyberspace. This will focus on issues relating to geography. I shall then explicate the paradigm of Natural Law accounts, the Treatise on Law, by Thomas Aquinas. From this account will emerge the structure of law and the metaphysics of justice. I shall explore those aspects of Cyberspace which cause geography to be problematic for Positive Law Theory and show how these are essential, unavoidable and beneficial. I will then apply Aquinas's structure of law and metaphysics of justice to these characteristics. From this will emerge an alternative approach to cyberlaw which has no problem with the nature of Cyberspace as it is but treats it as a positive foundation for new legal developments. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Internet nationallicence Justice nationallicence Cyberlaw nationallicence Natural Law Theory nationallicence Thomism nationallicence Philosophy of Law nationallicence Aquinas nationallicence ICT ethics nationallicence Philosophy & Technology Springer Netherlands 26/4(2013-12-01), 459-476 2210-5433 26:4<459 2013 26 13347 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-013-0110-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-013-0110-2 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Dainow Brandt National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Philosophy & Technology Springer Netherlands 26/4(2013-12-01), 459-476 2210-5433 26:4<459 2013 26 13347 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer