Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law
Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year

With uninterrupted clarity, frequent eloquence and occasional humor, J. Budziszewski presents and defends the natural law tradition in what is at once a primer for students and a vigorous argument for scholars.

Written on the Heart expounds the work of the leading architects of theory on natural law, including Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and John Locke. It also takes up contemporary philosophy, theology and political science, colorfully running against the intimidating tide of advanced pluralism that finds natural law so difficult to tolerate.

Throughout the volume, Budziszewski sure-footedly achieves his self-confessed aim of displaying the "subtlety, richness and intellectual surprise" of the natural law tradition.

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Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law
Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year

With uninterrupted clarity, frequent eloquence and occasional humor, J. Budziszewski presents and defends the natural law tradition in what is at once a primer for students and a vigorous argument for scholars.

Written on the Heart expounds the work of the leading architects of theory on natural law, including Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and John Locke. It also takes up contemporary philosophy, theology and political science, colorfully running against the intimidating tide of advanced pluralism that finds natural law so difficult to tolerate.

Throughout the volume, Budziszewski sure-footedly achieves his self-confessed aim of displaying the "subtlety, richness and intellectual surprise" of the natural law tradition.

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Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

by J. Budziszewski
Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

Written on the Heart: The Case for Natural Law

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Voted one of Christianity Today's Books of the Year

With uninterrupted clarity, frequent eloquence and occasional humor, J. Budziszewski presents and defends the natural law tradition in what is at once a primer for students and a vigorous argument for scholars.

Written on the Heart expounds the work of the leading architects of theory on natural law, including Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and John Locke. It also takes up contemporary philosophy, theology and political science, colorfully running against the intimidating tide of advanced pluralism that finds natural law so difficult to tolerate.

Throughout the volume, Budziszewski sure-footedly achieves his self-confessed aim of displaying the "subtlety, richness and intellectual surprise" of the natural law tradition.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780830818914
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Publication date: 05/14/1997
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

J. Budziszewski is professor in the departments of government and philosophy at the University of Texas at Austin. His other books include The Revenge of Conscience, What We Can't Know, How to Stay Christian in College and Ask Me Anything: Provocative Answers for College Students.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Preface

Unit I: Aristotle
1. Politics the Human Good
2. Moral Excellence Regime Design
3. Friendship, Justice the Moral Significance of Law

Unit II: Thomas Aquinas
4. The Grand Design of Law
5. The Law of Nature the Law of Man
6. Human Law Regime Design

Unit III: John Locke
7. The State of Nature the Social Contract
8. Two Views of Natural Law
9. Private Property Revolution

Unit IV: John Stuart Mill
10. The Pleasure Principle
11. The Problem with the Pleasure Principle
12. Utility Justice

Intermezzo: The Art of Teaching

Unit V: Written on the Heart
13. A Christian Appraisal of Natural-Law Theory
14. A Reprise of the Older Thinkers
15. A Sampling of Recent Thinkers

Appendix: Elementary Reasoning

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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