Contents
Foreword by Robert P. George
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Joseph Boyle and Natural Law Ethics (John Liptay & Christopher Tollefsen)
Part 1. Artrticulatating a Theory of Natural Law
Section 1. Determinism, Reasons for Action, Free Choice, and Incommensurability
1. Is Determinism Self-Refuting?
2. Reasons for Action: Evaluative Cognitions That Underlie Motivations
3. Free Choice, Incomparably Valuable Options, and Incommensurable Categories of Good
Section 2. The Nature and Foundations of Natural Law
4. Being Reasonable in Choosing among Incommensurable Goods
5. On the Most Fundamental Principle of Morality
Section 3. Intention and Double Effect
6. Double Effect and a Certain Type of Embryotomy
7. Toward Understanding the Principle of Double Effect
8. Intention, Permissibility, and the Structure of Agency
Part 2. Natural Law Theory and Contemporary Moral Problems
Section 1. Justice in War
9. An Immoral Kind of Deterrence
10. Traditional Just War Theory and Humanitarian Intervention
Section 2. Private Property and Welfare Rights
11. Natural Law, Ownership, and the World’s Natural Resources
12. Fairness in Holdings: A Natural Law Account of Property and Welfare Rights
Section 3. Bioethics
13. Personal Responsibility and Freedom in Health Care: A Contemporary Natural Law Perspective
14. A Case for Sometimes Tube-Feeding Patients in Persistent Vegetative State
15. Against “Assisted Death”
Bibliography
Index