Crowe on the Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law Theory

Jonathan Crowe has posted  Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Law Theories (in George Duke and Robert P. George (eds), The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press, 2017)).  Here is the abstract: The natural law outlook (as defended in the work of the ‘new natural law theorists’, such as Germain Grisez, John Finnis and Joseph M. Boyle ) involves a range of distinctive positions in ethics, political philosophy and jurisprudence. Specifically, it consists of an ethical theory that combines the incommensurability of the basic forms of good with the logical priority of the good over the right; a political theory that holds that all agents have a duty to promote the common good; and a legal theory that combines a normative account of law as social coordination with the ontological claim that law is necessarily a rational standard for conduct. This chapter explores the metaphysical foundations of these aspects of…

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