ANTH 4340 Study Guide - Distributive Justice
11 Apr 2014
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Talking about what will be on the writing assignments. Read a lot, its on the readings that we have been doing, up until the date of the assignment. We should know how aristotle fit of this course. You shoud know mainly why aristotle is important. Should his key concepts is and how it pertains to law. So the law cholerically guides our behaviour as well as morality, the question is what is the nature of the relationship between law and morality. Law is justice, and stands closest to morality. Concept 1: unless the law is just, we don"t have law aquinas calls the perversion of law . Natural law theory- defines law as justice- was a dominant way people saw law. Concept 2: law came into existence in accordance to criteria. Aristotle believed everything in nature was composed of a distinct type of being. And moves from its potentiality to its actuality.
