Natural moral law in contemporary society / edited by Holger Zaborowski.

"Natural law is a controversial subject but one of great significance in the ongoing and increasingly important discussion about the foundations of moral reasoning. The essays of this volume examine natural moral law, different natural law theories, and the role that natural law can and should...

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Other Authors: Zaborowski, Holger, 1974- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, ©2010.
Series:Studies in philosophy and the history of philosophy ; v. 53.
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Table of Contents:
  • That which holds the world together: the prepolitical moral foundations of a free state / Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, Benedict XVI
  • Discovery and obligation in natural law / Robert Sokolowski
  • The metaphysical foundations of natural law / David S. Oderberg
  • Natural law as fact, theory, and sign of contradiction / J. Budziszewski
  • The virtues of the natural moral law / J.L.A . Garcia
  • Teleology and evidence: reasoning about human nature / Jean De Groot
  • Politics pointing beyond the Polis and the Politeia: Aquinas on natural law and the common good / Mary M. Keys
  • Natural right and the problem of public reason / V. Bradley Lewis
  • Two versions of political philosophy: teleology and the conceptual genesis of the modern state / Francis Slade
  • The good of health and the ends of medicine / Luke Gormally
  • Montesquieu, judicial degeneracy, and the U.S. Supreme Court / Nelson Lund
  • Aesthetics and ethics: some common problems of foundationalism / John Rist.