Natural Law: A Good Idea That Does Not Work Very Well (At Least Not in the Current Secular Society)

Within the Church, natural law is an effective tool for analyzing bioethical problems. Still, it does not work as effectively in civil discourse, since the assumptions of natural law are not necessarily shared. Civil laws in the West at the end of modernity do not assume any particular telos for ind...

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Published in:Christian bioethics
Main Author: Thobaben, James R. 1954- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2016]
In: Christian bioethics
RelBib Classification:CH Christianity and Society
NAB Fundamental theology
NCH Medical ethics
VA Philosophy
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