Intractable Disputes About the Natural Law

In 2004, then Cardinal Ratzinger requested that the University of Notre Dame study the complex issues embedded in discussions about "natural rights" and "natural law" in the context of Catholic thinking. To that end, Alasdair MacIntyre provided a substantive essay on the foundational problem of moral disagreements concerning natural law, and eight scholars were invited to respond to MacIntyre's essay, either by addressing his work directly or by amplifying his argument along other yet similar paths. The contributors to this volume are theologians, philosophers, civil and canon lawyers, and political scientists, who reflect on these issues from different disciplinary perspectives. MacIntyre responds to the other contributors in a closing essay. Book jacket.

Lawrence S. Cunningham is the John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent book is A Brief History of Saints.

Preface	p. vii
List of Contributors	p. xiii
Intractable Moral Disagreements	p. 1
Does the Natural Law Provide a Universally Valid Morality?	p. 53
Moral Disagreement and Interreligious Conversation: The Penitential Pace of Understanding	p. 97
Prophetic Rhetoric and Moral Disagreement	p. 131
After Intractable Moral Disagreement: The Catholic Roots of an Ethic of Political Reconciliation	p. 167
Moral Disagreement and the Limits of Reason: Reflections on MacIntyre and Ratzinger	p. 195
Ultimate Ends and Incommensurable Lives in Aristotle	p. 227
The Foundation of Human Rights and Canon Law	p. 251
The Fearful Thoughts of Mortals: Aquinas on Conflict, Self-Knowledge, and the Virtues of Practical Reasoning	p. 273
From Answers to Questions: A Response to the Responses	p. 313
Index	p. 353
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