Title: Common truths : new perspectives on natural law /
Authors: McLean, Edward B.
Publisher: ISI Books,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Natural law
Abstract: Addresses the questions philosophers have asked for centuries about the ground for man's actions. Why be moral? What is law? What are the limits of coercion within a just and free society? These and similar questions are ancient yet timely; and today, as always, they demand answers. Explicates the historical, theoretical, legislative and juridical aspects of natural law doctrine. The essayists reveal the comprehensiveness and, consequently, the usefulness of natural law theory in deriving human solutions to the problems confronting contemporary society.
Contents: Are there moral truths that everyone knows? / Ralph McInerny -- Natural law: the legacy of Greece and Rome / J. Rufus Fears -- Aquinas, Natural law, and the challenges of diversity / John Jenkins -- John Locke's reflections on natural law and the character of the modern world / Timothy Fuller -- Theories of natural law in the culture of advanced modernity / Alasdair MacIntyre -- What dignity means / Virginia Black -- Natural law and positive law / Robert P. George -- Natural rights and the limits of constitutional law / Russell Hittinger -- Natural law and sexual ethics / Janet E. Smith -- Contract law and natural law / Edward J. Murphy -- Tort law and natural law / William N. Riley -- Criminal law and natural law / Ian A.T. McLean -- Natural law in the twenty-first century / Charles E. Rice.