Natural reason and natural law : an assessment of the Straussian criticisms of Thomas Aquinas / James Carey.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-379) and index.

pt. 1 The Teleology of Natural Reason -- ch. 1 Preliminary Considerations -- Section A The Theological Context -- Section b Natural Reason -- Section c Prudence, Judgment, and Synderesis -- Section d Law and the Ends of Human Action -- ch. 2 The Case for Natural Law -- Section A The First Principle of Practical Reason -- Section b The Precepts of Natural Law -- i. The order of natural inclinations -- ii. Primary and secondary precepts -- iii. Self-evidence -- iv. Love of one's neighbor -- v. Natural law and the moral precepts of the Decalogue -- vi. Application of the precepts of natural law -- Section c Obligation Explicated -- i. Freedom of choice -- ii. Is and Ought -- iii. Conditional obligations -- iv. Unconditional obligations -- ch. 3 Reason Commanding -- Section A Natural Law and Roman Catholicism -- Section b The New Natural Law Theory -- Section c Thomas Aquinas and Kant -- Section d The Bonum Rationis -- pt. 2 Straussian Criticisms -- ch. 4 Criticisms Advanced by Leo Strauss -- Section A Medieval Philosophy vs. Christian Scholasticism -- Section b The Criticisms in Natural Right and History -- Section c The Criticisms in "On Natural Law" -- ch. 5 Criticisms Advanced by Harry Jaffa -- Section A Thomas's Departures from Aristotle -- Section b The Natural Desire for a Supernatural End -- Section c Natural Law and the American Founding -- ch. 6 Criticisms Advanced by Ernest Fortin -- Section A Providence and Natural Law -- Section b The Promulgation of Natural Law -- Section c The Question of Punishment -- ch. 7 Criticisms Advanced by Michael Zuckert -- ch. 8 The Precept Commanding the Love and Worship of God -- ch. 9 The Scope of Synderesis -- Section A Synderesis as Natural -- Section b Synderesis as Universal -- i. Seth Benardete on obligation in Greek antiquity -- ii. Douglas Kries on the acquisition of synderesis -- iii. The feeling of right and wrong -- iv. Synderesis in moral education -- Section c Synderesis as Inerrant -- Moral Absolutes -- ch. 10 Rational Sociability -- Section A Exotericism -- Section b The Good of Others -- Section c Philosophy and the Catholic Faith -- pt. 3 Beyond Natural Law -- ch. 11 Inconsistencies and Other Aberrations -- Section A The Denial of Universal Rules -- Section b Circumventing the Practical Syllogism -- Section c Competence and Conscientiousness -- Section d Science and Values -- ch. 12 Philosophizing in the Shadow of Heidegger -- Section A Nature and World -- Section b Strauss's Struggle with Heidegger -- i. Choice of ends -- ii. Historicism -- iii. The Struggle with Heidegger in Natural Right and History -- iv. The Struggle with Heidegger in "Introduction to Existentialism" -- Section c Toward a Thomistic Response to Heidegger -- i. Problems in the Husserlian background -- ii. The ontological difference between Being and beings -- iii. Metaphysics and mysticism -- iv. Logic, ontology, and theoria -- v. Conscience phenomenologically considered -- ch. 13 Natural Teleology Revalidated -- ch. 14 Objections and Replies.

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