The normativity of the natural
Subtitle: human goods, human virtues, and human flourishing
By: edited by Mark J. Cherry
Series: Philosophical studies in contemporary culture -- v. 16; Philosophical studies in contemporary culture -- v. 16.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009
Place of publication: [Dordrecht]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9789048123001; 9789048123018
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued also as e-book.
Table of contents: title: The normativity of the natural : can philosophers pull morality out of the magic hat of human nature? / Mark J. Cherry; title: pt. 1. Thomistic foundations : natural law theory, synderesis and practical reason. Human nature and its limits / Christopher Tollefsen ; Synderesis, law, and virtue / Angela McKay ; Human nature and moral goodness / Patrick Lee ; Natural law for teaching ethics : an essential tool and not a seamless web / Jack Green Musselman; title: pt. 2. Human goods and human flourishing  : revitalizing a fallen moral culture. Quid ipse sis nosse desisti / Douglas V. Henry ; Preparation for the cure / Anthony E. Giampietro ; Diagnosing cultural progress and decline / William J. Zanardi; title: pt. 3. The malleability of human nature. Reflections on secular foundationalism and our human future / Stephen Erickson ; Nature as second nature : plasticity and habit / Peter Wake ; The posthumanist challenge to a partly naturalized virtue ethics / Roberta M. Berry; title: pt. 4. The challenge of deriving an ought from an is. Can moral norms be derived from nature? The incompatibility of natural scientific investigation and moral norm generation / Ian Nyberg ; Moral acquaintances and natural facts in the Darwinian age / Stephen S. Hanson.