...good: "The good is that which all things desire." The primary precept of the law, therefore, is that good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided. On this precept all the other precepts of the natural law are based, so that all things to be done...

...the ends of our natural inclinations. Thomas writes that the first precept of the natural law is that good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided. This, as shown in the Prima pars, is that to which synderesis incites a person. Thomas invokes synderesis...

...known, on the basis of rational reflection. The most general such truth concerning right conduct is "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided" (S7^ 49). This principle of right conduct, combined with Aquinas's account of the basic goods for humans,...

...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...

...was suggested in a seminal 1965 article by Germain Grisez, which proposed a novel reinterpretation of Aquinas's first principle of practical reason, "good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided."13 According to the conventional view, the first principle of practical reason is itself a...

...the "first principle of practical reason" (primum principium in rationepractica), which states that "good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided" (bonum est faciendum etprosequendum, etmalum w'fancfum).46The principle occupies an important place...

...acts of our will."21 Which is it then: are all the primary precepts of the Natural Law or is only the first principle of practical reason - "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided"22 - generated by practical reason alone? Grisez did not settle, at least not in his 1965 article,...

...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...

...following ways. Aquinas bases his doctrine on the notion of the universally knowable first moral principle, good is to be done and pursued and evil is to be avoided 43 , or more simply, 'do good and avoid evil.' This is a mandate as Saint Thomas sees it, not a goal...

...the possibility of an increasingly realized relationship with God. The first precept of natural law, "good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided" (STI. II.94.2), is anticipated in the animal world but can only be fully realized, both in its accomplishment...