Why Natural Law is Making a Comeback

The Weekly Standard ^ | 12-20-99 | J. Budziszewski

[WriteOn]

Exactly.

[WriteOn]

Nice analysis of the root of absurdity.

[HumanaeVitae]

Interesting analysis on ID and Natural Law. If you have time, here is a talk that William Dembski gave on the future prospects of ID, including research fields (most intriguing: DNA steganography). The link is to a web page, the full paper is in PDF.

[HumanaeVitae]

Thanks...useful, clarifying summary.

[saradippity]

Thanks for a great post!!it has captured in one article al-st everything about natural law that the many books I have read and lectures I have attended,enabled me to put in my "world view".And,it has done it clearly and concisely.

In fact I spent years accumulating the info and then spent the last several years trying to figure out how to introduce it into pertinent conversations without putting the other party into a state of utter confusion or a coma.

thaanks again and your right about the author,a genius!!

[Dajjal]

Po-Mo-Tho bump

[ultima ratio]

Thanks for posting this. Just to tie it in with the other threads, the claim that the natural law is changeable has been a common assertion of the new theology. Charles Curran made this claim, teaching that the natural law and moral rules were in continual evolution. Cardinal Suenens made a similar point when he stated that "a healthy evolution" had removed certain taboos in the relations between men and women. Some of this thinking has permeated the seminaries for a long time now, which explains in part some of the moral rot. In other theological circles the ontological basis for the Natural Law itself has been fiercely attacked.

[Hibernius Druid]

Thank you. An important post. While the most general contours of natural law may be "self evident," the particulars aren't all that clear, hence the centuries of disucussion of this important concept. Glad to hear it's back on the front burner of at least some moral philosophers. Generally speaking, though, natural law has few champions amidst the prevailing orthodoxies of postmodernism. Too bad.

[Askel5]

What a pleasure to come across this thread. Thanks for the flag.

[Askel5]

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