Concepts of good and evil

3 levels
Metaphysical
Physical
Moral

METAPHYSICAL
- if god created everything then why is there evil
- theology uses the bible and reason while philosophy is not dependent in the bible
- Good is anything that IS - being
- Anything that is a being is good
- whatever that has an is is good and vice versa because it is created by God
- Evil is the absence of Isness
- Is means it is positive
- “and God saw that it was good”
- Esse - and act
- perfect in becoming an is
- everytime there is an is, there is good
- evil is the absence of creation
- it is not true that God created evil because evil is not an is. Evil is the absence of is
- human beings possess the highest goodness
- in terms of goodness, mas good yung plants kaysa sa bato
- REASON INTELLECT AND WILL
- we are created just like God
- the will is attracted to anything that is
- the relationship of the ill and the is is good
- if we have no will, then have no concept of good
- evil is the absence of good
- evil cannot be created
- evil is a form of privation, deformity
- evil disturbs harmony
- evil is an interpretation/judgment
- argument of light and darkness
- Hell is good
- Sin is the absence of goodness
- Hell is the ultimate metaphysical evil because you loose the most important thing in life which is God
- The is is related to the intellect in terms of its knowing/knowability. And the is is related to the good in
terms of its intentionality/desirability
- The ultimate good is god and the ultimate knowable being is god

PHYSICAL
- Physical good is anything that is an object, end, a goal, of human inclination or instinct or tendency
- Knowledge is a physical good
- Any goal, end, are good
- We are potencia to infinite perfection - potentia obenedtialis
- Evil is the absence of physical good - walay gusto manguyab sa imo, hunger
- Money is instrumental and a physical good

MORAL GOOD AND EVIL

- Moral good is anything that is virtuous
- The possession of moral virtues - honesty,\
 - Evil that is contrary to the good -

THREE KINDS OF LAWS

- The end doesn't justify the means - ex abortions
1. Civil - law of state
- No significance of morality
- Doing it doesn't make you moral and vice-versa
- There are laws that are moral but not all
- Changeable
- If it is contrary to the moral law, it is not binding
2. Religious - laws that govern religious worship
3. Moral - Universal law. The real command of God