John Finnis NL

• Finnis rejects aquinas' five primary precepts and replaces them with the basic good 
• they are self-evident and universal 
• finnis says they are self-evident as they are concerned with practical reasoning which is once red with how to act. 
• He says they are derived from gods law and just obviously exist 

1. Life, 2. Knowledge, 3. Friendships and socialbility, 4. Play, 5. Aesthetic reasonableness, 6. Practical reasonableness, 7. Religion 

1. Long term 

2. Priorities 

3. Equality

4. Not obsessive

5. Be invovled

6. Be good 

7. Don't harm 

8. Community 

9. Practical reason 

• According to Finnis doing good is to follow the seven basic goods and the nine practical reasons and doing bad is the opposite of this 
• the seven basic goods and the nine requirements of practical reason specify our overarching moral structure ad moral goals 

Common good 

• this means that each member of the community can pursue the basic goods 

authority 

• the way to achieve the common good was that actions need to be performed by the whole community 
• to do this community needs the rule of law to allow a stable society 

Immigration 

• basic goods such as religion, support immigration and requirements of practical reason such as equality also support immigration 

capital punishment 

• The basic good of life can support capital punishment along with the requirement of community 
• the basic good of life could also not support capital punishment along with don't harm