CALLED TO THE FULLNESS OF LIFE

• According to Noam Chomsky, anarchism is a kind of a tendency in human thought and action which tries to detect structures of authority, domination, and hierarchy and to challenge them, ask them to demonstrate their legitimacy, recognizing that they are not self justifying.
• A law is not limited to:

  • A legislative or judicial domain
  • Commands, obligations, moral imperatives
  • Controlling what other people are free to do
• Law is a teacher - It is about a rational or reasonable principle of order by which things are directed to their ends.
• Law is a ruler:

  • A measure of human acts
  • A guide in drawing straight lines
  • guides us in our actions to ensure they are upright and ordered to the common good
• Aquinas' Definition of Law - An ordination of reason for the common good from him who has care of the community, which is promulgated or made known.
• Law is an Ordination of Reason:

  • Law involves some kind of ordering and specifically an ordering according to reason.
  • Law is not a command of the will of the superior. 
  • Law is an expression of his (superior) reason consisting in a kind.
• Common good is a good of radically different kind because it is an end and it can be shared by many without loss or diminishment, e.g. truth, justice. Goods that can be shared by many, it is higher and nobler.
• Common good is the end that law aims at and serves.
• Eternal Law - The order of creation as it preexists in the divine mind.
• Natural Law - The rational creature’s participation in the eternal law.
• Divine Positive Law - What God has revealed through divine revelation in the OT and NT about how   human beings should live to come to the supernatural good of heaven.
• Human Laws - Application or determination of the natural law on various levels in a  particular community.
• Id - The in-born primitive portion of the storehouse of libido is the basic energy that continually pushes for immediate gratification. “The Pleasure Principle”. 
• Ego - The portion of personality that organizes, plans and keeps the person in touch with reality. Language and thought are both ego functions. “The Reality Principle”.
• Superego - The ‘conscience’ part of personality, which contains parental and societal values and attitudes incorporated during childhood. “The Ought Principle”
• Conscience is a judgment of reason whereby the human person recognizes the moral quality of a concrete act that he is going to perform, is in the process of performing, or has already completed. CCC, 1778
• Correct conscience tells us when something is a good choice or a bad choice and that this decision is in agreement with what that thing actually is according to the objective law;  it is a question of the objective truth received by man.
• Erroneous conscience judges something incorrectly, when something is bad you think it is good and when it is good you think it is bad; it is a question of what man, mistakenly, subjectively considers to be true.