Natural Law Today

Steven Brust is assistant professor of political science at Eastern New Mexico University. Christopher Wolfe is professor of politics at the University of Dallas.

• Chapter One: God, Teleology, and the Natural LawSteven A. Long, Ave Maria UniversityChapter Two: Natural Inclinations in Aquinas’s Account of Natural LawMichael Pakaluk, The Catholic University of AmericaChapter Three: Natural Law and Natural Right(s): Conceptual and Terminological ClarificationsFulvio Di Blasi, Thomas International CenterChapter Four: “The Same as to Knowledge”J. Budziszewki, University of Texas at AustinChapter Five: Aquinas’s Second Reason for the Necessity of Divine Law: Certainty of Knowledge with Respect to Particular and Contingent Moral ActionsSteven J. BrustChapter Six: Burying the Wrong Corpse: Second Thoughts on the Protestant Prejudice toward Natural Law ThinkingJ. Daryl Charles, the Acton InstituteChapter Seven: Natural Law and the Law TodayHadley Arkes, Amherst CollegeChapter Eight: Thomas Aquinas’s Concept of Natural Law: A Guide to Healthy LiberalismChristopher Wolfe, Marquette University

With essays by some of the best writers on the natural law, including J. Budziszewski, Steven Long, Hadley Harkes, Christopher Wolfe, and one of the last essays written by the late, great Ralph McInerny (with the very characteristic title, “A Natural Lawman at the O.K. Corral”), this volume is a superb resource and that unique accomplishment in modern publishing: a collection of essays that fits together, makes a coherent argument, and is not filled with essays you don’t want. Editors Brust and Wolfe have done a nice piece of work here bringing these essays together.”