→ and for Aquinas this would
be NATURAL LAW
ETHICS
→ Aquinas structure of his
PLATO magnum opus that follows
→ He is credited for giving the the trajectory of this story
subsequent history of magnum opus Summa
philosophy in one of its most Theologiae
compelling and enduring
ideas : the notion of a → It is the significant
supreme and absolutely Aristotelian contribution to
transcendent good. the picture which will be
→ These are the scholars that given to us by AQUINAS
turned Plato's texts and
tried to decipher the wealth → He said that within us a
of ideas contained conscience that directs our
there.they were labeled as moral thinking.
NEOPLATONISTS. → For him only God in the
fullness of his being and
→ NEOPLATONIC GOOD is goodness is perfect; all
where Plato trying to other beings are
envision the ideal society. participating in this
goodness.
→ PLATONIC IDEA the idea
of the good would continue ARISTOTLE
well into the Christian → He proposes four
middle ages. concepts which provide a
way of understanding any
→ For him the real is outside particular being under
the realm of any human consideration.
sensory experience but can
somehow be grasped by → He also has to explain to us
one’s intellect the process of becoming
→ or the possibility of
change that takes place in
a being
THOMAS AQUINAS
→ He was a Dominican friar → His discourse of ethics
who was the preeminent departs from the platonic
intellectual figure of the understanding of reality and
scholastic period of the conception of the good
middle ages.
→ He speaks of God → HAPPINESS AND
→ A ground that will more ULTIMATE PURPOSE is
concretely direct our sense
the highest purpose of
of what is right and wrong
hierarchy of telos for him
be NATURAL LAW
ETHICS
→ Aquinas structure of his
PLATO magnum opus that follows
→ He is credited for giving the the trajectory of this story
subsequent history of magnum opus Summa
philosophy in one of its most Theologiae
compelling and enduring
ideas : the notion of a → It is the significant
supreme and absolutely Aristotelian contribution to
transcendent good. the picture which will be
→ These are the scholars that given to us by AQUINAS
turned Plato's texts and
tried to decipher the wealth → He said that within us a
of ideas contained conscience that directs our
there.they were labeled as moral thinking.
NEOPLATONISTS. → For him only God in the
fullness of his being and
→ NEOPLATONIC GOOD is goodness is perfect; all
where Plato trying to other beings are
envision the ideal society. participating in this
goodness.
→ PLATONIC IDEA the idea
of the good would continue ARISTOTLE
well into the Christian → He proposes four
middle ages. concepts which provide a
way of understanding any
→ For him the real is outside particular being under
the realm of any human consideration.
sensory experience but can
somehow be grasped by → He also has to explain to us
one’s intellect the process of becoming
→ or the possibility of
change that takes place in
a being
THOMAS AQUINAS
→ He was a Dominican friar → His discourse of ethics
who was the preeminent departs from the platonic
intellectual figure of the understanding of reality and
scholastic period of the conception of the good
middle ages.
→ He speaks of God → HAPPINESS AND
→ A ground that will more ULTIMATE PURPOSE is
concretely direct our sense
the highest purpose of
of what is right and wrong
hierarchy of telos for him
