Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law Book

Ch. 1	Introduction	1
1	The scholastic concept of the natural law	7
2	The modern approach to the natural law	24
3	The later trajectory of the natural law tradition	33
4	The natural law and theological ethics : the proposed project	45
Ch. 2	Nature as nature : the roots of natural law	53
1	Speculative realism and the natural law : a preliminary consideration	57
2	Nature and the natural law	68
3	Defending a teleological conception of human nature	82
4	Toward a concept of human nature	103
5	Ethical naturalism, reason, and the natural law	125
Ch. 3	Virtue and the happy life	141
1	Natural well-being and the concept of happiness	145
2	Well-being, happiness, and the practice of the virtues	163
3	Ideals of virtue and norms of nature	177
4	Self-love, neighbor love, and the norms of justice	203
5	The happy life, revisited	221
Ch. 4	Nature as reason : act and precept in the natural law	231
1	Contemporary and medieval approaches to practical reason	234
2	Practical reason, will, and first principles	248
3	Natural and divine law : the decalogue as moral law	268
4	Moral norms as law and boundary	288
5	Prudence and the limits of moral knowledge	309
Ch. 5	Theological ethics and the natural law	325
1	The natural law as a basis for a Christian ethic	327
2	From natural law to human rights	342
3	The paradoxical status of natural rights	358
4	Nature, grace, and the natural law	378