Written on the Heart

by Budziszewski, J.

• ISBN13: 9780830818914
• ISBN10: 083081891X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-06-01
• Publisher: Ivp Academic
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Summary

Voted one ofChristianity Today's1998 Books of the Year!With uninterrupted clarity, frequent eloquence and occasional humor, J. Budziszewski presents and defends the natural law tradition in what is at once a primer for students and a vigorous argument for scholars.Written on the Heartexpounds the work of the leading architects of theory on natural law, including Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas and John Locke. It also takes up contemporary philosophy, theology and political science, colorfully running against the intimidating tide of advanced pluralism that finds natural law so difficult to tolerate.Throughout the volume, Budziszewski sure-footedly achieves his self-confessed aim of displaying the "subtlety, richness and intellectual surprise" of the natural law tradition.

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	9	(1)
PREFACE	10	(3)
UNIT I: ARISTOTLE	13	(38)
1 POLITICS & THE HUMAN GOOD	15	(11)
2 MORAL EXCELLENCE & REGIME DESIGN	26	(12)
3 FRIENDSHIP, JUSTICE & THE MORAL SIGNIFICANCE OF LAW	38	(13)
UNIT II: THOMAS AQUINAS	51	(44)
4 THE GRAND DESIGN OF LAW	53	(12)
5 THE LAW OF NATURE & THE LAW OF MAN	65	(15)
6 HUMAN LAW & REGIME DESIGN	80	(15)
UNIT III: JOHN LOCKE	95	(40)
7 THE STATE OF NATURE & THE SOCIAL CONTRACT	97	(11)
8 TWO VIEWS OF NATURAL LAW	108	(15)
9 PRIVATE PROPERTY & REVOLUTION	123	(12)
UNIT IV: JOHN STUART MILL	135	(42)
10 THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE	137	(8)
11 THE PROBLEM WITH THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE	145	(16)
12 UTILITY & JUSTICE	161	(8)
INTERMEZZO: THE ART OF TEACHING	169	(8)
UNIT V: WRITTEN ON THE HEART	177	(43)
13 A CHRISTIAN APPRAISAL OF NATURAL-LAW THEORY	179	(8)
14 A REPRISE OF THE OLDER THINKERS	187	(9)
15 A SAMPLING OF RECENT THINKERS	196	(24)
APPENDIX: ELEMENTARY REASONING	220	(9)
NOTES	229	(12)
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY	241	(4)
INDEX	245