law, justice and society chpter 1

Chapter one was a very interesting chapter. I was interesting because i got to learn about how law became what it is today. I leaned that there are different views on law and different beliefs about law. I learned that The Code of Hammurabi was the first form of law that was written down. Then there were many different influential thinkers in the history of the law. Plato was one of them and he believed that people can be good if they get the chance and if other people believe in them. Aristotle believed that law comes from the common man, it should be made for the common man, and he believed in natural law. Thomas Aquinas believed that law originated from God, and he believed in natural law. Thomas Hobbes believed in positive law and that people are selfish and we need law to control us. John Lock believed in actual law and he believed that government should serve the people not the people serve the government. Those were some but not all the important people who had important opinions about law. Chapter one was a really informative about all of the different people who thought about law in different ways and that is what i learned from this chapter. This link will teach you a little bit about Plato and his works http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgPJUTltITk