TY - BOOK ID - 17589543 TI - The natural moral law : the good after modernity PY - 2012 SN - 9781107669758 9781107008427 9781139030649 1107008425 1107227933 1107669758 1139030647 1139365886 1139371584 1139375571 1139377000 1139378430 1139379860 1280647450 9786613633507 PB - New York : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - MODERN THINKERS -- 340.1 KW - POSTMODERN THINKERS -- 340.1 KW - NATURAL LAW -- 340.1 KW - LAW AND ETHICS -- 340.1 KW - ANCIENT THINKERS -- 340.1 KW - Natural law KW - Law and ethics KW - Ethics and law KW - Law and morals KW - Morals and law KW - Law KW - Law of nature (Law) KW - Natural rights KW - Nature, Law of (Law) KW - Rights, Natural KW - Philosophy KW - General and Others KW - Natural law. KW - Law and ethics. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:17589543 AB - The Natural Moral Law argues that the good can be known and that therefore the moral law, which serves as a basis for human choice, can be understood. Proceeding historically through ancient, modern and postmodern thinkers, Owen Anderson studies beliefs about the good and how it is known, and how such beliefs shape claims about the moral law. The focal challenge is whether the skepticism of postmodern thinkers can be answered in a way that preserves knowledge claims about the good. Considering the failures of modern thinkers to correctly articulate reason and the good and how postmodern thinkers are responding to these failures, Anderson argues that there are identifiable patterns of thinking about what is good, some of which lead to false dichotomies. The book concludes with a consideration of how a moral law might look if the good is correctly identified. ER -