Written on the Heart

The Case for Natural Law

By J. Budziszewski

(paperback)

Product Details

Line: IVP Academic
Length: 252 pages
Size: 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches
Binding: paperback
Published: May 1997

ISBN-10: 0-8308-1891-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-8308-1891-4
IVP Order Code: 1891

Related Subjects

Philosophy
Public Life

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