The place of normativity: Natural Law and Personalistic norm

According to traditional Christian philosophy, natural law is usually described as an unwritten law and, at the same time, as a set of ethical principles inscribed in the soul of man like a Creator code. This is a metaphorical expression that, according to the metaphysical notion of analogia entis, shows how natural’s law principles are the reflex of the lex aeterna in which the human participates because of his own creaturely and rational nature. However, the process of secularization led to the dissolution of this metaphysical perspective, causing not only the post-metaphysical separation between lex aeterna and lex naturalis, but also between natural and human law, finally identifying the latter with the positive law. Within this context, it is particularly interesting the phenomenological thought of Karol Woytiła, who aims to combine the traditional notion of natural law with the philosophical notion of personalistic norm, based on the primacy of consciousness and on its autonomy