RT Review
T1 Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural Law
JF Studies in Christian ethics
VO 19
IS 3
SP 357
OP 378
A1 Rhonheimer, Martin 1950-
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2006
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1776581768
AB Jean Porter intends to develop a fresh construal of the natural law tradition which in its essentials corresponds to the thought of Aquinas. Despite her great learning and subtleness of argument, she seems to promote an agenda of her own which, rather than being Thomistic, points in the direction of a theologically warranted kind of moral relativism under the name of `moral pluralism'. Porter disregards the core of Aquinas's concept of natural law as a natural and truth-attaining intellectual light, enabling human beings to distinguish good from evil, and thus continues the tradition of opposing in moral theory `reason' to `nature'.
K1 Relativism
K1 Practical Reason
K1 Nature
K1 Naturalism
K1 Natural Law
K1 moral pluralism
K1 Thomas Aquinas
K1 Review Article
K1 Rezension
DO 10.1177/0953946806071558