| Introduction and Acknowledgments |
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9 | (2) |
| I. Knowledge of the Good as Participation in God's Love |
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11 | (22) |
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1 Introducing the Concepts of Good and Participation |
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2 Created Good as Participated |
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17 | (7) |
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2.1 Substantial Good as Participated |
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18 | (1) |
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2.2 Accidental Good as Participated |
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18 | (3) |
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2.3 Secundum ordinem ad causam primam |
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21 | (3) |
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3 Our Knowledge of the Good as Participated |
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24 | (7) |
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3.1 "Good" and "Knowledge of the Good" |
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24 | (2) |
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3.2 The Need for the Active Intellect |
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26 | (1) |
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3.3 The Participation of the Active Intellect |
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27 | (3) |
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3.4 Ens Universale and Bonum Universale |
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30 | (1) |
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4 "Someone is Approaching" |
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31 | (2) |
| II. Practical Syllogism, Proairesis, and the Virtues: Toward a Reconciliation of Virtue Ethics and Natural Law Ethics |
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33 | (25) |
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39 | (3) |
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2 What Thought? What Appetite? |
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42 | (5) |
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47 | (3) |
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50 | (5) |
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55 | (3) |
| III. Law as "Act of Reason" and "Command" |
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58 | (17) |
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1 The Analogical Nature of Aquinas' Concept of Law |
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58 | (5) |
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2 Law as an Act of Reason |
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63 | (5) |
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68 | (7) |
| IV. Spirit or Digital Self? The Concept of Person in Philosophy and Contemporary Science |
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75 | (24) |
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1 Determinism, Chance, and Freedom |
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77 | (8) |
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1.1 Conceptual and Terminological Clarifications |
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77 | (2) |
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79 | (3) |
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82 | (3) |
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2 Discovering the Concept of Person |
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85 | (14) |
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2.1 From Philosophy of Nature to Moral Philosophy |
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85 | (6) |
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2.2 From Freedom to Person |
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91 | (1) |
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2.3 The Definition of Person |
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92 | (7) |
| V. Ultimate End, Human Freedom, and Beatitude: A Critique of Germain Grisez |
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99 | (18) |
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1 Ultimate End: Formal Necessity and Free Content |
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99 | (9) |
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2 Beatific Vision: Why Human Beings? |
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108 | (9) |
| VI. What Nature? Whose Nature? Reflecting on Some Recent Arguments in Natural Law Ethics |
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117 | (33) |
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118 | (4) |
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120 | (2) |
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122 | (4) |
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2.1 Why is the Good "Good"? |
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124 | (2) |
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3 Contraception and the Contra-Life Argument |
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126 | (5) |
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3.1 The Tendency against Philosophical Realism |
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129 | (2) |
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4 Abstinence and Contraception |
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131 | (7) |
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4.1 The Principle of Inseparability |
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132 | (2) |
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4.2 The Argument from Abstinence |
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134 | (1) |
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4.3 Abstinence from What? |
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135 | (2) |
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137 | (1) |
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5 Value of Marriage and Acts of the Reproductive Type |
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138 | (5) |
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5.1 Reproduction and the Definition of Marriage |
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139 | (1) |
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5.2 Intentionality and Technical Necessity |
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140 | (1) |
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141 | (1) |
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5.4 Narrow Starting-Point and Wrong Conclusion |
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141 | (2) |
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6 Sketching Aquinas's Approach to Nature as the Basis of Morality |
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143 | (7) |
| VII. Natural Law as Inclination to God |
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150 | (40) |
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151 | (7) |
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1.1 Revelation and Natural Law |
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151 | (1) |
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1.2 Natural Law and the Covenant |
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152 | (1) |
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1.3 The Pedagogical Character of the Law and the Commandments |
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152 | (1) |
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1.4 Natural Law, Free Obedience and Moral Conscience |
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153 | (1) |
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1.5 Natural Law, Reason, and Revelation |
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154 | (1) |
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1.6 Natural Law and Love of God |
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155 | (1) |
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1.7 Natural Law as a Preamble of the Faith |
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156 | (1) |
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1.8 The Question about Morality, Natural Law, and Ethics' Religious Aspect |
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157 | (1) |
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158 | (4) |
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2.1 Man as the Subject of Ethics |
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159 | (1) |
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2.2 The Importance of Virtue |
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159 | (1) |
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2.3 Human Action as Ethical Action |
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160 | (1) |
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2.4 Natural Law as an Approach to Ethical Theory |
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161 | (1) |
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3 The Term "Law": Some Implications |
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162 | (6) |
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3.1 The Two-Subject Relation and the Common Good |
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162 | (1) |
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163 | (2) |
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165 | (1) |
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166 | (1) |
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3.5 The Autonomy of the Law |
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167 | (1) |
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168 | (1) |
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169 | (5) |
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5.1 Inclination and Freedom |
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170 | (4) |
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174 | (14) |
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6.1 Participatio Legis Eternae in Rationali Creatura |
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175 | (1) |
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6.2 Knowing the Eternal Law |
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176 | (2) |
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6.3 Material Object and Formal Object of Natural Law |
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178 | (2) |
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6.4 Dilectio Naturalis of the Human Will |
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180 | (5) |
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6.5 Inclination to God and Moral Experience |
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185 | (3) |
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7 Conclusion: Main Theoretical Presuppositions of Classical Natural Law Theory |
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188 | (2) |
| VIII. Friendship or Equality? Notes Toward an Ideal of Political Personalism |
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190 | (26) |
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193 | (10) |
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1.1 Friendship and Equality |
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196 | (3) |
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1.2 The Specific Character of Friendship |
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199 | (3) |
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1.3 Friendship and Person |
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202 | (1) |
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2 Person, Friendship, and Political Community |
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203 | (13) |
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2.1 Friendship's Act of Sharing |
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205 | (1) |
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2.2 The Uniqueness of the Political Contract |
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206 | (2) |
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2.3 Primacy of Friendship and Criteria of Justice |
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208 | (8) |
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2.3.1 Justice of Having Recourse to a Selective Criterion |
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209 | (1) |
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2.3.2 A Selective Criterion as Law's Internal Point of View |
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210 | (1) |
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2.3.3 A Selective Criterion and Balancing |
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211 | (1) |
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2.3.4 The Justice of the Relevance of Tradition |
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212 | (1) |
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2.3.5 Multiculturalism and Political Personalism |
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213 | (3) |
| IX. Natural Law, Democracy, and the Crisis of Authority |
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216 | (23) |
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1 Liberal Neutrality and the Priority of the Right Over the Good |
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220 | (8) |
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2 The Modern State and the Crisis of Authority |
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228 | (5) |
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3 From Lex Naturalis to Ius Naturale |
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233 | (6) |
| Index |
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