Melissa Moschella provides a rigorous but accessible overview of the new natural law account of ethics and political philosophy. She also discusses the relationship between morality and God, and how the natural law account relates to Christian revelation. The go-to resource to understand this important and influential theory.
Melissa Moschella provides a rigorous but accessible overview of the new natural law account of ethics and political philosophy. She also discusses the relationship between morality and God, and how the natural law account relates to Christian revelation. The go-to resource to understand this important and influential theory.
Melissa Moschella is a professor of the practice in philosophy at the University of Notre Dame's McGrath Institute for Church Life. She is the author of To Whom Do Children Belong? Parental Rights, Civic Education, and Children's Autonomy. Russell Hittinger is the Executive Director of the Institute for Human Ecology and co-founder of the Program on Catholic Political Thought at the Catholic University of America.
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Foreword by Russell Hittinger Acknowledgments Introduction: Natural Law Ethics as "Commonsense Morality" 1. Basic Human Goods: The First Principles of Ethics 1. What Ethics Is About: Human Action and Free Choice 2. Basic Human Goods: The Basic Reasons for Action 3. Responses to Common Objections * Does Human Life Really Have Intrinsic Value? * What about Pleasure? * What about Autonomy? 4. How We Come to Know Basic Goods 5. Some Clarifications about Basic Goods * Incommensurability of Basic Goods * Basic Goods as First Principles of Practical Reason * Basic Goods and Human Nature 6. Nature, Natural Law, and Practical Rationality 7. Putting It All Together 2. Moral Principles 8. The First Principle of Morality and Intermediate Moral Norms * Never Intentionally Damage or Destroy a Basic Human Good * Fairness: The Golden Rule * The Vocation Principle: Establishing a Reasonable Priority among Goods * The Unity of Life Principle: Integrating Pursuits and Commitments in View of an Ultimate End 9. The Doctrine of Double Effect 10. Virtues: The Embodiment of Moral Principles * Acting for No Real Reason * Unreasonable Preferences among Persons or Goods * Practical Wisdom and Emotional Motivation 3. The Social Dimension of Human Flourishing 11. The Nature of Community 12. The Role of Community in Human Flourishing: The Life of Susie * The Family * Intermediate Associations 13. Justice and Special Obligations 4. The Political Dimension of Human Flourishing 14. The Political Community as a Community of Communities 15. The Common Good of the Political Community: All-Inclusive Common Good versus Specifically Political Common Good 16. Political Authority 17. The Limits of Political Authority * Substantive Limits on Government * Procedural Limits on Government: The Rule of Law 18. Natural Law and Liberalism 19. What about Patriotism? 20. Conclusion 5. Human Flourishing, Morality, and God * God and Moral Obligation * God and Moral Motivation * Christian Revelation and the Promise of the Kingdom * Conclusion Appendix: Annotated Resource Bibliography Bibliography Index Extended Table of Contents
Foreword by Russell Hittinger Acknowledgments Introduction: Natural Law Ethics as "Commonsense Morality" 1. Basic Human Goods: The First Principles of Ethics 1. What Ethics Is About: Human Action and Free Choice 2. Basic Human Goods: The Basic Reasons for Action 3. Responses to Common Objections * Does Human Life Really Have Intrinsic Value? * What about Pleasure? * What about Autonomy? 4. How We Come to Know Basic Goods 5. Some Clarifications about Basic Goods * Incommensurability of Basic Goods * Basic Goods as First Principles of Practical Reason * Basic Goods and Human Nature 6. Nature, Natural Law, and Practical Rationality 7. Putting It All Together 2. Moral Principles 8. The First Principle of Morality and Intermediate Moral Norms * Never Intentionally Damage or Destroy a Basic Human Good * Fairness: The Golden Rule * The Vocation Principle: Establishing a Reasonable Priority among Goods * The Unity of Life Principle: Integrating Pursuits and Commitments in View of an Ultimate End 9. The Doctrine of Double Effect 10. Virtues: The Embodiment of Moral Principles * Acting for No Real Reason * Unreasonable Preferences among Persons or Goods * Practical Wisdom and Emotional Motivation 3. The Social Dimension of Human Flourishing 11. The Nature of Community 12. The Role of Community in Human Flourishing: The Life of Susie * The Family * Intermediate Associations 13. Justice and Special Obligations 4. The Political Dimension of Human Flourishing 14. The Political Community as a Community of Communities 15. The Common Good of the Political Community: All-Inclusive Common Good versus Specifically Political Common Good 16. Political Authority 17. The Limits of Political Authority * Substantive Limits on Government * Procedural Limits on Government: The Rule of Law 18. Natural Law and Liberalism 19. What about Patriotism? 20. Conclusion 5. Human Flourishing, Morality, and God * God and Moral Obligation * God and Moral Motivation * Christian Revelation and the Promise of the Kingdom * Conclusion Appendix: Annotated Resource Bibliography Bibliography Index Extended Table of Contents
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