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edited by Mark J. Cherry.

[Dordrecht] : Springer

2009

x, 229 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Philosophical studies in contemporary culture

Includes bibliographical references and index , The normativity of the natural : can philosophers pull morality out of the magic hat of human nature? / Mark J. Cherry -- pt. 1. Thomistic foundations : natural law theory, synderesis and practical reason. Human nature and its limits / Christopher Tollefsen ; Synderesis, law, and virtue / Angela McKay ; Human nature and moral goodness / Patrick Lee ; Natural law for teaching ethics : an essential tool and not a seamless web / Jack Green Musselman -- pt. 2. Human goods and human flourishing : revitalizing a fallen moral culture. Quid ipse sis nosse desisti / Douglas V. Henry ; Preparation for the cure / Anthony E. Giampietro ; Diagnosing cultural progress and decline / William J. Zanardi -- pt. 3. The malleability of human nature. Reflections on secular foundationalism and our human future / Stephen Erickson ; Nature as second nature : plasticity and habit / Peter Wake ; The posthumanist challenge to a partly naturalized virtue ethics / Roberta M. Berry -- pt. 4. The challenge of deriving an ought from an is. Can moral norms be derived from nature? The incompatibility of natural scientific investigation and moral norm generation / Ian Nyberg ; Moral acquaintances and natural facts in the Darwinian age / Stephen S. Hanson.

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