Question:

Is it possible to maintain a natural law without believing in the divine source why or why not?

- Law is intended to the common good. Therefore, there is no virtue whose acts cannot be

prescribed by the law. However human law does not prescribe concerning all the acts of every

virtue, but only in regard to those that are settled to the common good—either immediately, as

when certain things are done directly for the common good, or immediately, as when a lawyer

prescribes certain things pertaining to proper instruction, where in the citizens are directed in the

continuation of the common good of justice and peace. While on the other hand Divine Law

besides the natural and the human law it was necessary for the directing of human conduct to have

a divine law. Because it is by law that man is directed how to perform his proper acts in view of

his last end. And indeed, if man were appointed to no other end than that which is equal to his

natural faculty, there would be no need for man to have any further direction on the part of his

reason besides the natural law and human law which is derived from it. But since man is created

to an end of eternal happiness which is in equal to man’s natural faculty . . . therefore it was

necessary that, besides the natural and the human law, man should be directed to his end by a law

given by God.
Question:

Do you agree that the happiness is the pursuit of pleasure and avoidance of pain, that all actions

are directed toward pleasure?

- Happiness is Pleasure; all things are to be done for the sake of the pleasant feelings associated

with them. It depends on the person how he handle his/her own happiness and to satisfy the

feeling of pleasure. However, there are necessary and unnecessary desires. Necessary desires,

like desiring to be free from bodily pain, help in producing happiness, whereas unnecessary

desires, like desiring a bigger car or a more luxurious meal, typically produce unhappiness or the

materials things that we wanted.