- ホーム
- > 洋書
- > 英文書
- > Religion / Ethics
Full Description
This book argues that natural law - when construed as an epistemological and trans-cultural lingua franca, adjudged capable of legitimating the rational intelligibility and universal applicability of specific Christian moral principles within contemporary "secular" discourse - has failed.
Through a detailed analysis of the contributions of three prominent natural law theorists who are located within a shared philosophical-theological tradition, namely, John Finnis, Jean Porter, and John Milbank, the text illuminates the extent to which this failure is as much intramural as it is extramural.
Morgan explores how new horizons open up for natural law if the theological "unsaid(s)" are allowed to surface and the disremembering power of the secular mythos is overcome. The final chapter(s) of the book addresses one such horizon— that the theoretical fulcrum of the natural law lies not in its perceptual self-evidence or in its immanent secularity; but rather in its subtle provision of an immanent eschatology.
Contents
Part One: Deconstruction
Introduction
Chapter One
The "Windy Mysticism"
Chapter Two
On ("New") Natural Law: John Finnis' Analytical Response to its 'Cultured Despisers'
Chapter Three
Jean Porter's Scholastic Defence of Ethical Naturalism: Natural Law as a Theological Locus for Contemporary Moral Reflection
Chapter Four
John Milbank's Genealogical Riposte: Natural Law as a Hylozoistic Re-Narration of Divine Government
Part Two - Reconstruction
Chapter Five
Deconstructing the Secular Mythos
Chapter Six
An Eschatological and Anamnetic: Re-narration of Natural Law
Bibliography
Index
