| Description |
This seminar considers work of contemporary natural law theorists and their interlocutors. Among the issues addressed are the objectivity of morals, the nature of legal obligation, the similarities and differences between natural law theories and utilitarian and deontological theories, the nature of human fulfillment and the grounds of moral duty, the relationship of morality to politics and law, the question of the moral status of humans in the earliest stages and of those in mentally or physically debilitated conditions, sexual ethics and the nature and meaning of marriage, and the role of reason and religious faith in ethics and politics. |