Contents
Acknowledgments iii
Introduction iv
Part I: Philosophical Foundations of the Natural Law
1. Benedict M. Ashley, O.P., The Anthropological Foundations of the
Natural Law: A Thomistic Engagement with Modern Science 1
Response
Janet E. Smith, Character as an Enabler of Moral Judgment 15
2. Ralph McInerny, Thomistic Natural Law and Aristotelian Philosophy 23
Part II: Natural Law in a Theological Context
3. David Novak, Maimonides and Aquinas on Natural Law 39
Response
Martin D. Yaffe, Natural Law in Maimonides? 62
John Goyette, Natural Law and the Metaphysics of Creation 69
4. Romanus Cessario, O.P., Why Aquinas Locates Natural Law within the
Sacra Doctrina 74
Response
Robert Fastiggi, Natural Reason in the Service of Faith 89
Earl Muller, S.J., The Christological Foundation of Natural Law 97
Part III: The New Natural Law Theory
5. William E. May, Contemporary Perspectives on Thomistic Natural
Law 105
Response
Mark S. Latkovic, Natural Law and Specific Moral Norms 152
6. Steven A. Long, Natural Law or Autonomous Practical Reason:
Problems for the New Natural Law Theory 160
Part IV: Law and Politics
7. Christopher Wolfe, Thomistic Natural Law and the American Natural
Law Tradition 189
Response
William Mathie, Aquinas, Locke and Lincoln in the American
Regime 222
8. Robert P. George, Kelsen and Aquinas on the Natural Law Doctrine 229
9. Russell Hittinger, Thomas Aquinas on Natural Law and the Competence to
Judge 252
Contributors 277
Works Cited 289
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