The Normativity of the Natural Human Goods, Human Virtues, and Human Flourishing /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cherry, Mark J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 16
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Ethics.; Religion > Philosophy.; Political philosophy.; Philosophy of Religion.; Philosophy, general.; Political Philosophy.

Western philosophy has long nurtured the hope to resolve moral controversies through reason; thereby to secure moral direction and human meaning without the need for a defining encounter with God or the transcendent. The expectation is for a moral rationality that is universal and able adequately to...

Table of Contents:

• The Normativity of the Natural: Can Philosophers Pull Morality Out of the Magic Hat of Human Nature?
• The Normativity of the Natural: Can Philosophers Pull Morality Out of the Magic Hat of Human Nature?
• Thomistic Foundations: Natural Law Theory, Synderesis and Practical Reason
• Human Nature and Its Limits
• Synderesis, Law, and Virtue
• Human Nature and Moral Goodness
• Natural Law for Teaching Ethics: An Essential Tool and Not a Seamless Web
• Human Goods and Human Flourishing: Revitalizing a Fallen Moral Culture
• Quid Ipse Sis Nosse Desisti
• Preparation for the Cure
• Diagnosing Cultural Progress and Decline
• The Malleability of Human Nature
• Reflections on Secular Foundationalism and Our Human Future
• Nature as Second Nature: Plasticity and Habit
• The Posthumanist Challenge to a Partly Naturalized Virtue Ethics
• The Challenge of Deriving an Ought from an Is
• Can Moral Norms Be Derived from Nature? The Incompatibility of Natural Scientific Investigation and Moral Norm Generation
• Moral Acquaintances and Natural Facts in the Darwinian Age.