Aquinas defines "good" as "that which all things seek after" -- and from this derives the first precept of natural law: "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided."
Aquinas defines "good" as "that which all things seek after" -- and from this derives the first precept of natural law: "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided."
This is what Aquinas says. There are two problems here. First, not all good things are sought after by all humans, let alone by all things. So it seems better to define "good" as "what we (humans) ought to seek after." Second, if we define "good" in terms of what in fact is sought after, we can't derive a norm about what ought to be sought after. We can avoid these problems by cleaning up Aquinas's definition and norm to become:
Aquinas defines "good" as "that which all things seek after" -- and from this derives the first precept of natural law: "Good is to be done and pursued, and evil is to be avoided."
This is what Aquinas says.