PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Legal Positivism
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Subject (st. ) thomas aquines (1225-1274) law law of nature natural law positive (civil) law. Thomas was basing his philosophy on aristotle. Aguines is a catholic monk/ priest,one of the rst european to read aristotle too bad he"s an atheist. Thomas believes in god and wanted to add that to aristotles philosophy. Thomas works out the notion of natural law. He had assistants to write for him: wrote three separate things at the same time based off memory. Thomas says murder is illegal because it is immoral. Law- ordinance of reason, promulgated by right, authority for common good. The law has to be made the authority who can do it. Has to be made for the common good. Thomas thinks if its missing one of three it is not a good law. Of the laws, he thinks theres lots of kinds of laws. Thoams is religious he thinks the law of nature ts the de nition of law.
