 In what sense, though, is conscience acquired? Although the ability to judge the deontic propositions of the natural law as self-evidently true is innate, it does not follow that the contents of such propositions are innate. It does not follow, that is, that the concepts “father” and “mother” in the precept to honor one’s parents are in the mind from birth. And indeed, so Bonaventure thinks, they are not. Rather, they are species or likenesses acquired through sense experience which, once acquired, form the terms of the universal propositions of the natural law that are intuitively grasped. In this sense, Bonaventure is true to Aristotle: