PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Treatise On Law, Practical Reason
7 Dec 2017
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Reason is the source of all actions with the proper end of humanity in view and enlists laws to rule and measure what actions ought to be done for the sake of this end. And reason concerns the end of all human actions. Then law is concerned with commanding those actions that promote the end of all human actions. Divinely ordained law structuring the whole universe: natural law. The function of things ordained by eternal law. Natural law is the participation of all things in eternal law: human law. Laws enacted by human reason for the sake of human ends. Practical reason is ordered to the good" and has an indemonstrable rst principle: that good is what all things seek (q94,2) All actions are undertaken for the sake of an end. The end of all actions is the good (real or perceived)
