HUMA 1825 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Social Animal, Jeremy Bentham, Nicomachean Ethics

• School: York University
• Department: Humanities
• Course: HUMA 1825
• Professor: Shirley Katz

Document Summary

Question about the aquinas reading as well. Very specific questions (ask to do different things) Direct text will be given, and analyze. According to aristotle and thomas aquinas: law is justice law stands in the closest possible relationship with morality. Ancient greeks in medieval ages with aquinas is that law is justice, if a law is unjust then we don"t have a law at all, this is a perversion of law. This theory, good theory, in challenged theory until the late eighteenth century and nineteenth century until we get to utilitarian"s, jeremy bentham. Only then is there a rival theory to this, called legal positivism. Aristotle"s work is based on his students lecture notes, sometimes fragments and inconsistencies and repetition in the style of his text. Aristotle"s books on ethic is one of the iconic texts. He is one of three people of great thinkers. He is the pupil of plato, who was a pupil of socrates.