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Natural moral law in contemporary societyedited by Holger Zaborowski.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, (c)2010.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 359 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813219325
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • BJ1249 .N388 2010
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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.
Subject: "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 play in our contemporary society. While some essays explore systematically the metaphysical and moral foundations of natural law, others focus on questions related to the application of natural law in the political, medical, or legal realm, or discuss historical questions that are closely related to the crisis and defense of natural law. All contributors agree that natural law is a concept that cannot and must not be dismissed and that is in need of a careful retrieval. While there are clearly differences in emphasis among the contributors, most of them also agree that the defense of natural law, the critique of the modern dismissal of natural law and of a modern non-teleological understanding of nature, and the proper use of philosophical reasoning are all closely related."--BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

"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 play in our contemporary society. While some essays explore systematically the metaphysical and moral foundations of natural law, others focus on questions related to the application of natural law in the political, medical, or legal realm, or discuss historical questions that are closely related to the crisis and defense of natural law. All contributors agree that natural law is a concept that cannot and must not be dismissed and that is in need of a careful retrieval. While there are clearly differences in emphasis among the contributors, most of them also agree that the defense of natural law, the critique of the modern dismissal of natural law and of a modern non-teleological understanding of nature, and the proper use of philosophical reasoning are all closely related."--BOOK JACKET.

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