Ana Marta Gonzalez has this article on Mercatornet.com:
Brilliant modern scholars have breathed new life into an ancient approach to morality
. . . A recent book on the topic of natural law, which is a compilation of papers from an international conference held in Spain in 2006, makes this point clear. If you accept natural law, you accept that human nature exists and that it is the same for all humans. This in turn implies that some actions that human beings can perform are not good for them. It further implies that freedom is not the goal of human existence but rather a faculty of choice which allows us to do good actions and thus to flourish as human beings.
Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law: Natural Law as a Limiting Concept is a useful addition to contemporary debate, given that, despite its pariah status in some universities, natural law ethics is still one of the great traditions of ethical thinking and is given some time in most ethics courses, even if this amounts to a dismissive nod . . .
