Contents
Foreword by Ralph McInerny
Foreword to the Italian Edition by Mario A. Cattaneo
Translator's Note
Preface to the English Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Natural Law and Analytic Philosophy
2. John Finnis
3. Finnis and Hart
4. The Neoclassical Theory of Natural Law
5. Natural Law, Natural Rights, and Contemporary Liberalism
6. Henry Veatch: Objectivity, Nature and Human Rights
7. From Nature to God
Chapter One: The Neoclassical Critique of Conventional Natural Law Theory
1. Introduction
2. Suarez's Mediation Between Nominalism and Antinominalism
3. Manualistic Morality
4. The Neoclassical Image of the Conventional Theory
5. The Transcendental Aspect of the Neoclassical Critique
6. The Antinominalism of Neoclassical Theory
Chapter Two: The Presupposition of Lex Naturalis: Man as Capax Dei
1. Introduction
2. The Ethical Relevance of God's Will
	2.1. How We Know God's Will
	2.2. Will and Law
3. The Natural Knowledge of God
	3.1. The Non-Self-Evidence of God's Existence
	3.2. The Object of Human Knowledge
	3.3. Judgment and Reasoning
	3.4. God in Reality
	3.5. Via Negativa and Via Positiva
	3.6. The Idea of God: Premise and Object of the Proofs
	3.7. The Insufficiency of Being
		3.7.1. The Way of Motion
		3.7.2. The Way of Efficient Causality
		3.7.3. The Way of Contingency
		3.7.4. The Doctrine of Participation
		3.7.5. The Fourth Way
		3.7.6. The Way of Finality
	3.8. The Metaphysical Experience of Being
4. The Inclination to God
	4.1. God as a Moral Problem for Man
	4.2. The Meaning of Moral Experience
	4.3. The Formal Object of Ethics
4.4. "By Natural Love, Man Loves God before Himself and with a Greater Love"
 
Chapter Three: "Lex" and "Lex Naturalis"
1. Introduction
2. Providence and the Eternal Law
3. Freedom and Natural Law
	3.1. The Necessity of Law
	3.2. The Concept of Law
		3.2.1. Jacques Maritain: Natural Law and Inclinations
4. Natural Law and Divine Law
	4.1. Law as an Ordering to the Ultimate End
	4.2. Correspondence with the Natural Order
	4.3. Intention of the Ultimate End and the Order of Reason
	4.4. Proper End, Natural Measure, and Hierarchy
	4.5. The Morality and Immorality of Acts
	4.6. Fornication and Marriage
5. A Response to Abbà
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
 

Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Contributions in natural law doctine, Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274 Contributions in the theology of God, Natural law Religious aspects