Nature as reason : a Thomistic theory of the natural law /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Porter, Jean, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2005]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The scholastic concept of natural law
  • The modern approach to the natural law
  • The later trajectory of the natural law tradition
  • The natural law and theological ethics : the proposed project
  • Speculative realism and the natural law : a preliminary consideration
  • Nature and the natural law
  • Defending a teleological conception of human nature
  • Toward a concept of human nature
  • Ethical naturalism, reason, and the natural law
  • Natural well-being and the concept of happiness
  • Well-being, happiness, and the practice of the virtues
  • Ideals of virtue and norms of nature
  • Self-love, neighbor love, and the norms of justice
  • The happy life, revisited
  • Contemporary and medieval approaches to practical reason
  • Practical reason, will, and first principles
  • Natural and divine law : the decalogue as moral law
  • Moral norms as law and boundary
  • Prudence and the limits of moral knowledge
  • The natural law as a basic for a Christian ethic
  • From natural law to human rights
  • The paradoxical status of natural rights
  • Nature, grace, and the natural law.