Natural law is the belief that nature or gods have given humanity a universal roadmap for proper moral conduct. Historical thinkers from Aristotle to St. Thomas Aquinas have all stood by this view and espoused philosophies to guide humanity towards the laws of nature. Yet all of these thinkers ran into the same problem when defending their theories: their constant appeals to the divine and sacred undermined the logic of natural law and its potential appeal to a wider audience. Additionally, their perspectives on human nature are in conflict with modern developments in evolutionary anthropology.
In Tenets of Nature, Vincent Giordano explores the history of natural law and combines its many iterations into one cohesive theory. Drawing on the arc of human evolutionary history, this book synthesizes two seemingly dueling disciplines - science and philosophy - into a modern, secular, and universally-applicable theory of natural law. For the first time in history, natural law is redefined, refurbished, and placed into a larger secular framework.
