Nature as Reason : A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law

, by Porter, Jean

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ISBN: 9780802849069 | 0802849067
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Copyright: 12/15/2004

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Preface

Acknowledgments

CHAPTER ONE Introduction

(52)

1. The Scholastic Concept of the Natural Law

(17)

2. The Modern Approach to the Natural Law

(9)

3. The Later Trajectory of the Natural Law Tradition

(12)

4. The Natural Law and Theological Ethics: The Proposed Project

(8)

CHAPTER TWO Nature As Nature: The Roots of Natural Law

(88)

1. Speculative Realism and the Natural Law: A Preliminary Consideration

(11)

2. Nature and the Natural Law

(14)

3. Defending a Teleological Conception of Human Nature

(21)

4. Toward a Concept of Human Nature

103

(22)

5. Ethical Naturalism, Reason, and the Natural Law

125

(16)

CHAPTER THREE Virtue and the Happy Life

141

(90)

1. Natural Well-Being and the Concept of Happiness

145

(18)

2. Well-Being, Happiness, and the Practice of the Virtues

163

(14)

3. Ideals of Virtue and Norms of Nature

177

(26)

4. Self-Love, Neighbor Love, and the Norms of Justice

203

(18)

5. The Happy Life, Revisited

221

(10)

CHAPTER FOUR Nature As Reason: Act and Precept in the Natural Law

231

(94)

1. Contemporary and Medieval Approaches to Practical Reason

234

(14)

2. Practical Reason, Will, and First Principles

248

(20)

3. Natural and Divine Law: The Decalogue as Moral Law

268

(20)

4. Moral Norms as Law and Boundary

288

(21)

5. Prudence and the Limits of Moral Knowledge

309

(16)

CHAPTER FIVE Theological Ethics and the Natural Law

325

(76)

1. The Natural Law as a Basis for a Christian Ethic

327

(15)

2. From Natural Law to Human Rights

342

(16)

3. The Paradoxical Status of Natural Rights

358

(20)

4. Nature, Grace, and the Natural Law

378

(23)

Bibliography

401

(16)

Index of Proper Names

417

(2)

Index of Subjects

419

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