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Showing posts with label Happiness and Natural Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Happiness and Natural Law. Show all posts
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Duns Scotus: On the Pursuit of Happiness

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D UNS SCOTUS EXPLORES THE ISSUE OF HAPPINESS, and, in so doing, critiques the Aristotelian and Thomistic eudaimonistic doctrines. Scotus ask...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Ignorance of the Wrong-Restless Hearts' Final Rest

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T HE NATURAL LAW IS INTENDED to be man's guide to a natural perfection, and this regardless of time, place, and circumstance.* In parti...
Sunday, October 31, 2010

Contra Consequentialismum: Happiness and Basic Goods

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“H UMAN LIFE IS MULTIFACETED, and human appetites diverse, so too the good for man, or happiness, has many aspects." Oderberg, 40-41. ...
Saturday, October 30, 2010

Contra Consequentialismum: The Good

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A ΓΑΘΟΥ ΤΙΝΟΣ ΕΦΙΕΣΘΑΙ ΔΟΚΕΙ, all things tend toward good, Aristotle famously stated in the beginning of his Nicomachean Ethics (1094a). Wi...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Leo Strauss and Natural Law: Locke and the Pursuit of Happiness

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T HE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS is, for an American, a given, a moral and political shibboleth. The "pursuit of happiness" has made it i...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Cardinal Mercier and the Natural Law, Part 4: Happiness

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HAPPINESS IS THE END OF HUMAN NATURE. No created good can make man happy; ergo, the only good that can make man happy is uncreated. That lea...