...est simul affirmare et negare », so the first self-evident principle in the practical order is that good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided, « bonum est faciendum et prosequendum, et malum vitandum » (I-II, Q. 94, a. 2, c.). It is the work...

...important, the principle of noncontradiction), so there is a first principle of practical reason, namely, "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided." Like its speculative counterparts, this first principle is selfevident and indemonstrable. It is necessary...

...especially plausible with respect to what Aquinas calls the first principle of practical reason: that good is to be done and pursued and evil is to be avoided. For this principle, like the principle of non-contradiction, does not normally function as a premiss...

...natural law which are the first principles of human actions. Hence this is the first precept of law: that good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided. All other precepts of the natural law are based upon this, so that whatever the practical reason naturally...

...secundae. Practical reason apprehends the good as "that which all things seek after," to which the first principle of practical reason, "good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided," orients all human actions. Applied to ethics, the moral life of one who respects the natural law flows...

...good, viz., that good is that which all things seek after. Hence this is the first precept of law, that good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided. All other precepts of the natural law are based upon this, so that whatever the practical reason naturally...

...good, viz. that good is that which all things seek after. Hence this is the first precept of law, that good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided. All other precepts of the natural law are based upon this: so that whatever the practical reason naturally...

...good, viz., that good is that which all things seek after. Hence this is the first precept of law, that good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided.'90 Through his doctrine of natural law, Aquinas encapsulates Aristotle's belief in the rationality...

...reason, which Aquinas also calls the precepts of natural law. The first principle of practical reason is: "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided" (Bonum est faciendum et prosequendum, et malum vitandum), and assent to this principle arises from...

...is that which all things desire. Therefore, this is the first precept of [natural] law, namely, that good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided. And upon this [precept or 'proposition' of practical reason] are based all other precepts of natural...