Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law

Introduction; Part 1 The Concept of Natural Law; Chapter 1 Natural Law as a Limiting Concept: A Reading of Thomas Aquinas, Ana Marta Gonzalez; Part 2 Historical Studies; Chapter 2 Natural Law and the Human City, Russell Hittinger; Chapter 3 The Formal Fundament of Natural Law in the Golden Age: The case of Vazquez and Suarez, Juan Cruz Cruz; Chapter 4 Natural Law Without Metaphysics: A Protestant Tradition, Knud Haakonssen; Chapter 5 Natural Law and Obligation in Hutcheson and Kant, Jeffrey Edwards; Chapter 6 Spontaneity and the Law of Nature: Leibniz and Pre-critical Kant, Maria Jesus Soto-Bruna; Chapter 7 Kant's Conception of Natural Right, Alejandro G. Vigo; Chapter 8 The Right of Freedom regarding Nature in Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Montserrat Herrero; Part 3 Controversial Issues about Natural Law; Chapter 9 Natural Law and Practical Philosophy: The Presence of a Theological Concept in Moral Knowledge, Alfredo Cruz Prados; Chapter 10 First Principles and Practical Philosophy, Alejandro Llano; Chapter 11 The Relativity of Goodness: A Prolegomenon to a Rapprochement between Virtue Ethics and Natural Law Theory, Christopher Martin; Chapter 12 Does the Naturalistic Fallacy Reach Natural Law?, Urbano Ferrer; Chapter 13 Human Universality and Natural Law, Carmelo Vigna; Part 4 Natural Law and Science; Chapter 14 Difficulties on Modern for Natural Law Based Conceptions of Nature, Richard F. Hassing; Chapter 15 Evolution, Semiosis and Ethics: Rethinking the Context of Natural Law, John Deely; Chapter 16 Teleology: Inorganic and Organic, David S. Oderberg; Chapter 17 The Unrelinquishability of Teleology, Robert Spaemann;