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The Revival of Natural Law - Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School (Paperback)
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The Revival of Natural Law - Philosophical, Theological and Ethical Responses to the Finnis-Grisez School (Paperback)
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Natural law theory has been enjoying a significant revival in
recent times. Led by Germain Grisez in the USA and John Finnis in
the UK, one school of thinkers has been articulating a highly
developed system of natural law built upon a sophisticated account
of practical reasoning and a rich and flexible understanding of the
human good. However, long-standing prejudices against old-style
natural law among moral philosophers and Protestant ethicists,
together with the new theory's appropriation by conservatives in
the impassioned debate between the Vatican and dissenting
theologians in the United States, have prevented the Finnis-Grisez
version from being adequately appreciated. Providing a clear and
substantive introduction to the theory for those who are new to it,
this book then broadens, assesses, and advances the debate about
it, examining crucial philosophical, theological and ethical issues
and opening up discussion beyond the confines of the Roman Catholic
Church. Part 1, on philosophical issues, starts with two broad
chapters that locate the Grisez school in relation to modern moral
philosophy and the Roman Catholic philosophical tradition of
Thomism, and then follows these with further chapters on two
crucial issues: the possibility of consensus on the human good, and
the nature of moral absolutes. Part 2, on theological dimensions,
begins with a Lutheran critique of Grisez, locates him in relation
to the ethics of two very prominent 20th century Protestants, Karl
Barth and Stanley Hauerwas, and then explores the major area of
theological controversy within the Roman Catholic community - how
to conceive of the "Church's" authority with regard to moral
matters. Part 3 subjects the school's thought to critical
examination in a broad range of ethical fields: bioethics, gender,
sex and the environment. A concluding chapter then develops eight
topics that recur in the course of the book: the status of ethical
realism in the contemporary intellectual climate; whether realism
is best conceived in rationalist or naturalist terms; whether
marriage should be counted as a basic good; whether physical
pleasure should not be counted a basic good; whether it is always
wrong to act deliberately against a basic good; the problems of
moral certainty and authority; the rapproachement between
Protestant and Roman Catholic ethics; and, finally, whether ethical
understanding is really independent of one's anthropological point
of view. Drawing together North American, European and Australian
contributors from across moral philosophy and Protestant ethics as
well as from Roman Catholic moral theology, this book opens up the
debate about the Finnis-Grisez theory, highlighting its strengths
and weaknesses in order to advance current discussion about natural
law in moral theology and in moral and legal philosophy.
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