Hello and welcome to our fourth reading of Cooking with Pooh. Just kidding, this is episode four of

the panpsychast where we'll be focusing on St Thomas Aquinas and Natural Law. St. Thomas Aquinas

lived in the 13th century and was one of the greatest philosophers of all time. His output was,

as we shall see, astonishing, not merely in the

sheer number of words that he produced, but in the range of topics that he discussed. When asked

at the end of his life what the greatest gift God had given him, he replied that he had never read

a page that he did not at once understand. Natural law has its foundations in the ancient Greek philosophy of Aristotle and the Stoics.

The Stoics believed that there was a divine spark which guided human beings to their

ultimate purpose.

Aristotle also proposed this idea of there being a purpose or telos and he believed that

all things aimed to fulfill their telos.

For human beings, this telos is eudaimeneer.

This is translated as happiness, but a more nuanced view sees it as human flourishing.

Please refer back to our episode two on Aristotle on teleology, although we'll be covering it

at the start of this episode today.

Right, so in part one, we're going to be looking at teleology.

In part two, we're going to look at the four tiers of law.

In part three, we're going to look at the precepts.

And in part four, we're going to open it up to a further discussion

and analysis of natural law in general.

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