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Concepts of Nature

Ancient and Modern
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If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was developed? Building on the work of important thinkers of the last half-century, including Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, John Finnis, and Bernard Lonergan, the essays in Concepts of Nature compare and contrast classical, medieval, and modern conceptions of nature in order to better understand how and why the concept of nature no longer seems to provide a limit or standard for human action. These essays also evaluate whether a rearticulation of pre-modern ideas (or perhaps a reconciliation or reconstitution on modern terms) is desirable and/or possible. Edited by R. J. Snell and Steven F. McGuire, this book will be of interest to intellectual historians, political theorists, theologians, and philosophers.
Table of Contents Introduction R. J. Snell and Steven F. McGuire 1. Voegelin's Analysis of Human Nature in Aristotle Barry Cooper Response by Thomas W. Smith 2. Nature, Human Nature, and Human Dignity in Light of the Primary Experience of the Cosmos Glenn Hughes Response by Melissa Moschella 3. Natural Rights and History: Hugo Grotius' Modern Translation of Aristotle Jeremy Seth Geddert Response by Jesse Covington 4. Categories and Causes: Physics and Politics for Aristotle and for Us James R. Stoner, Jr. Response by Christopher O. Tollefsen 5. Rousseau on Nature, Freedom and the Moral Life Susan Meld Shell Response by Geoffrey M. Vaughan 6. Nature, History and the Problem of Progress in H.G. Wells Charles T. Rubin Response by Amy Gilbert Richards 7. Nature in Louis Dupre's Model of Modernity Stephen M Fields, SJ Response by Anna Bonta Moreland 8. From Pure Nature to Concrete Subject: The Question of God in the Secular Age Randall S. Rosenberg Response by Gregory R. Beabout
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