The Natural Law and the Normative Significance of Nature

Studies in Christian Ethics 26 (2):166-173 (2013)
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We regard cooperation as generally good, and yet this does not imply that it is morally good. The scholastic conception of nature offers the kind of distinction between levels of normative appraisal that we need, and suggests a fruitful way of thinking about the moral significance of our naturally sociable nature.

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