PP213 Lecture 4: PP213 Week 4
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Let us give first place and pre-eminent authority to the following rule: what. God has shown to be his will, that is law. - de jure praedae commentarius, This law of nature, being co-eval with mankind and dictated by god himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. Critical of natural law equated it with self-aggrandizement. From real laws come real rights; but from imaginary laws, from laws of nature, fancied and invented by poets, rhetoricians, and dealers in moral and intellectual poisons, come imaginary rights, a bastard brood of monsters. The existence of law is one thing; its merit ro demerit is another. Whether it be or be not is one enquiry; whether it be or be not conformable to an assumed standard, is a different qneuiry. *legal rules have to be intelligible, but not necessarily reasonable or moral. Aquinas says legal rules have to be promulgated (known to community) .
