After the Natural Law

by John Lawrence Hill

Book Overview

The "natural law" worldview developed over the course of almost two thousand years beginning with Plato and Aristotle and culminating with St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. This tradition holds that the world is ordered, intelligible and good, that there are objective moral truths which we can know and that human beings can achieve true happiness only by following our inborn nature, which draws us toward our own perfection. Most accounts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1621640175
• ISBN13: 9781621640172
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Ignatius Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"