PHIL 2050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Common Good

• School: York University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 2050
• Professor: Susan Dimock

Document Summary

Natural law (eternally true) gives us ruler to ll in our human law. Common good on aquinas account is very bad for humans. democracy not his prefered model. Has heiarchy for this: common good (laws neccesary to maintain the safety and, uphold the human rights, of each individual, law maker, promilgation (must be written down/pubic/accesible)-descriptive feature. All morality is normative but not all normativity is moral. Eternal law: anything that you can think of is governed by gods eternal law. Natural law: we share in with animal in the sense that we have instincts, but we also have this aspect to go against these insticts.