The Natural Law Tradition and Belief

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Intro Contents List of Figures List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Prologue Natural Law Part 1 Chapter 1 The Project: Naturalist, Theistic, and Religious Approaches to Natural Law Introduction NAVE and Hume NAVE and the Three Rs The Three R Questions and the Possibility of Theism and Religious Belief Chapter 2 Neo-Aristotelian Naturalism: Element 1) Ontology Element 1) Metaphysics, Ontology and "Ontological Goods" in the Scale of Nature Evil and Being Theory of Truth and Meaning Analogy of Attribution Chapter 3 NAVE Element 2) Anthropology and Element 3) The Wish for Wellbeing and Its IngredientsNAVE Element 2) Anthropology Level A Capacities: Intellect and Will of the Self Level B Capacities: Sensation of Pleasure and Pain, Perception, Limb Mobility, Reading, Writing, and Speech Level C Capacities: Automatic Physical Substructures and the Autonomic System Knowing the True Good Assimilating the Goods Individuation Moral Psychology NAVE Element 3) The Wish for Wellbeing and Finding Its Ingredients The Will and Evil: How Evil Action Happens Chapter 4 NAVE Element 4): Principles, Precepts, and VirtuesJustice: A Multi-Clause Analysis Practical Reasoning Depends Systematically on Assertoric/ Theoretic Reasoning Theoretic and Moral Modality Moral Modalities From Consensus to Controversy: The Good of Life and the Badness of Killing Principles and Precept: How They Are Known to be Self-Evident by Conscience The Practical Moral Analogues of Theoretic Self-Evidence Chapter 5 Element 5) of NAVE -- The Method of Determination in Moral Reasoning Practical Moral Reasoning and Casuistic Determination Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Step 1 & 2Step 3 Step 4 Conclusion Chapter 6 Physicalism Is Not Proven Defending the SMB Account of Soul, Mind/Will/Free Choice and Body given above in Element 2) and 3) According to Physicalism The M Question The P Question The E Question Some Critical Responses The Reality of Persons' Selves/Psyches and Minds Non-Identity and Non-Reducibility Multiple Description, Reduction as Explanation, and Qualia The Problem of Analysing the Conceptual Meanings (Representational Significance) of Words Teleological Practical Reason and Agent Causality Teleological Laws Are Better Predictors of Behaviour Than Physical LawsCircular and Contradictory The Reduction Ad Absurdum Argument against Physicalism Conclusion on Free Choice Part 2 Chapter 7 Bringing Back God and Religion Ontology of TNL TNL's Anthropology of Capacity The Human Good and Wellbeing in TNL Principle, Precepts, and Virtues Casuistry The DGE Difference Adding Religion: An Overview of Aquinas Summa Theologica Ontology The Anthropology Moral Psychology Wellbeing and Its Ingredient Goods Principles, Precepts and Virtues Casuistry Chapter 8