From human dignity to natural law : an introduction /
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| Author / Creator: | Berquist, Richard H., 1932- author. |
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| Imprint: | Washington, D.C. : The Catholic University of America Press, [2019] |
| Description: | xvii, 242 pages ; 22 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11982498 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on Abbreviations and Citations
- Introduction
- 1. Human Dignity
- A Case of Murder
- Ethical Relativism
- Egoism vs. Altruism
- The Common Good
- Human Dignity
- The Cause of Human Dignity
- Conclusion
- 2. Finality in Nature
- Finality in Aristotle and Contemporary Science
- The Limitations of the Scientific Method
- Are Living Things Machines?
- Nature Acts for an End
- Two Objections
- Conclusion
- 3. Happiness
- Opinions about Happiness
- The Definition of Happiness
- Happiness and Other Human Goods
- The Possibility of Happiness in the Present Life
- 4. Virtue
- What Is Virtue?
- Moral and Intellectual Virtues
- The Moral Virtues Discussed by Aristotle
- The Virtues of Self-Control
- The Social Virtues
- Justice
- Prudence
- Friendship
- Beyond the Nicomachean Ethics
- Virtue Ethics and Natural Law Ethics
- 5. The Natural Law
- The Definition of Law
- The Definition of Law Applied to the Natural Law
- The Primacy of the Common Good
- The Dependence of Human Law on the Natural Law
- Deriving Human Laws from the Natural Law
- The Content of the Natural Law
- Natural Goods
- The Love Commandments
- A Note on the Is/Ought Fallacy
- 6. The Life Issues: Part 1
- Suicide
- Killing the Innocent
- Euthanasia
- Abortion
- Bodily Integrity
- 7. The Life Issues: Part 2
- Indirect Killing
- Killing in Self-Defense
- Capital Punishment
- War
- Treatment of Enemy Combatants
- Applying Just War Theory Today
- Killing Animals
- 8. Sex, Marriage, and Family: Part 1
- The Sexual Act as an Act of Love
- The Sexual Act as Procreative
- Human Sexuality and Natural Law
- Masturbation, Sodomy, and Homosexual Acts
- Contraception
- Natural Family Planning
- Artificial Methods of Procreation
- 9. Sex, Marriage, and Family: Part 2
- The Nature of Marriage
- Monogamy
- Divorce
- Adultery and Sex outside Marriage
- Homosexual Marriage
- Conclusion
- 10. The Contemplative Life and Life in Society
- Truth and Wisdom
- The Contemplative Life
- Searching for Wisdom
- The Political Community and Public Authority
- Locke's Theory of the Social Contract
- Natural Law and Democracy
- The Universal Common Good
- Subsidiarity
- Conclusion
- 11. Natural Rights
- Natural Rights and Natural Duties
- A Modern Natural Rights Theory
- Responding to Natural Rights
- The Welfare State
- The Right to Life
- The Right to Freedom
- The Right to Property
- The Jus Gentium
- The Rights of the Family
- The Rights of the People: Virtue, Culture, and Religion
- Religion and Art
- Human Progress
- 12. Natural Law and the Alternatives
- What Prevents Us from Accepting the Natural Law?
- Are There Any Valid Human Laws?
- What Are the Alternatives to the Natural Law?
- Social Contract Theory
- Utilitarianism
- Kant
- W.D. Ross
- Two Concepts of Human Dignity
- A Concluding Thought
- Bibliography
- Index
