In the 1960s, proportionalism was a consequentialist attempt to develop natural law, a principally Roman Catholic teleological theory most strongly associated with the 13th-century scholastic theologian Thomas Aquinas, but also found in Church Fathers such as Maximus the Confessor and John of Damascus, as well as early pagan schools of philosophy such as Stoicism.
During the 1960s, proportionalism was an attempt to develop natural law, a Roman Catholic teleological theory that aligns with Thomas Aquinas. This concept is also found in Church Fathers like Maximus the Confessor and John of Damascus, as well as early pagan philosophical schools such as Stoicism.