is human nature good or evil?: the SYNDERESIS rule of st thomas aquinas

re: synderesis rule

fr: richard quenneville, BA Philo from St. Thomas Aquinas College, MN (2020 Jul 18), https://www.quora.com/What-is-one-strength-and-one-weakness-of-Thomas-Aquinas-natural-law?top_ans=227273128

>synderesis [<Gk. syn = with + terein = to guard closely] rule = we are innately born with a tendency to do good & avoid evil (the basic principle of the natural law) -- St. Thomas Aquinas

--concurred with by CS Lewis in The Abolition of Man (1943) where he defended OBJECTIVE VALUE & the NATURAL LAW vs moral relativism (Wikipedia). in the last part of this book, he quotes moral dictates from all over the world and concluded that TAO is the moral law common to us all, astoundingly common all over the world

vs. St Augustine: We are born into SIN c/o Adam's Fall.

--concurred with by Sigmund Freud: Natural SELFISHNESS becomes moralized by upbringing and socialization [eros & thanatos],  "given human beings propensity to destroy life in war, exploit other sentient creatures for our own ends, misuse sex, indulge in antisocial behaviour, and prefer the X box 360 to education"