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Ultimate Normative Foundations - The Case for Aquinas's Personalist Natural Law (Paperback)
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Ultimate Normative Foundations - The Case for Aquinas's Personalist Natural Law (Paperback)
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This book establishes that normativity has necessary
characteristics explicable only through the natural law formulation
developed by Aquinas and based on loving God and neighbor, albeit
understood in terms other than Christian charity and updated
according to the personalism of John Paul II. The resulting
personalist natural law can counter objections rising from
classical and contemporary metaethics, moral diversity, undeserved
suffering, antithetical interpretations of Aquinas's natural law,
and alternative ethical theories, e.g., atheistic eudaimonism. Also
established are the virtues of love; the nature of indefeasibility,
moral objectivity, human flourishing, and Thomistic self-evidence;
the relationship between the Bonum Precept (good is to be done and
pursued; evil is to be avoided) and the love precepts (God is to be
loved above all; neighbors are to be loved as oneself) as well as
specific moral and legal obligations. These specifications update
the nature of the common good, Just War Theory, the warrant for
capital punishment, environmental obligations, and the basis for
universal, unalienable rights, including religious liberty. The
Appendix sketches the history of natural law from its origins in
ancient Greek philosophy and Roman law, through developments during
the Enlightenment and the American revolution, to contemporary
incarnations. Overall, the book's scope and detailed arguments make
it a comprehensive resource for those interested in normative
foundations, justifying morality's objectivity and universality,
global jurisprudence, and recasting Thomistic natural law in terms
of personalist love.
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