Natural law & human dignity : universal ethics in an historical world / Eberhard Schockenhoff ; translated by Brian McNeil.
2003
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Title
Natural law & human dignity : universal ethics in an historical world / Eberhard Schockenhoff ; translated by Brian McNeil.
Uniform Title
Naturrecht und Menschenwürde. English
Published
Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, [2003]
Copyright
©2003
Call Number
BJ1249 .S36713 2003
ISBN
0813213398 (alk. paper)
0813213401 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813213401 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xi, 330 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)50803735
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-321) and indexes.
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Natural law and human dignity
Table of Contents
Preface
Abbreviations
I
The unwished-for inheritance of natural law
1
1
What the loss costs us
5
2
The dilemma of justification
8
II
The problem of ethical relativism
42
1
The discovery of the cultural relativity of our moral ideas
42
2
Types of philosophical argumentation in the encounter with moral relativism
46
III
The significance of history and the historicity of morality
82
1
the philosophical intentions of historical thinking
83
2
The anthropological meaning of history
115
IV
The universal claim of natural law
131
1
Preliminary hermeneutical reflections
132
2
Natural law and practical reason in Thomas Aquinas
145
3
Encountering the classical objections to the natural law
174
4
Prohibitions of the natural law, or intrinsically evil actions
190
V
The universal claim of biblical ethics
224
1
The background in anthropology and the theology of history
226
2
The universal significance of the Ten Commandments
237
3
The universal significance of the Sermon on the Mount
255
4
Natural law and biblical ethics
279
VI
The meaning of the distinction between law and morality
287
1
The difference in degree between natural law and human dignity
288
2
The differentiation between law and morality
293
Bibliography
309
Index of topics
323
Index of persons
328