The Normativity of the Natural

Part I. The Normativity of the Natural: Can Philosophers Pull Morality Out of the Magic Hat of Human Nature?

1. The Normativity of the Natural: Can Philosophers Pull Morality Out of the Magic Hat of Human Nature?
Mark J. Cherry

Part I. Thomistic Foundations: Natural Law Theory, Synderesis and Practical Reason

2. Human Nature and Its Limits
Christopher Tollefsen

3. Synderesis, Law, and Virtue
Angela McKay

4. Human Nature and Moral Goodness
Patrick Lee

5. Natural Law for Teaching Ethics: An Essential Tool and Not a Seamless Web
Jack Green Musselman

Part II. Human Goods and Human Flourishing: Revitalizing a Fallen Moral Culture

6. Quid Ipse Sis Nosse Desisti
Douglas V. Henry

7. Preparation for the Cure
Anthony E. Giampietro

8. Diagnosing Cultural Progress and Decline
William J. Zanardi

Part III. The Malleability of Human Nature

9. Reflections on Secular Foundationalism and Our Human Future
Stephen A. Erickson

10. Nature as Second Nature: Plasticity and Habit
Peter Wake

11. The Posthumanist Challenge to a Partly Naturalized Virtue Ethics
Roberta M. Berry

Part IV. The Challenge of Deriving an Ought from an Is

12. Can Moral Norms Be Derived from Nature? The Incompatibility of Natural Scientific Investigation and Moral Norm Generation
Ian Nyberg

13. Moral Acquaintances and Natural Facts in the Darwinian Age
Stephen S. Hanson

Avainsanat: Philosophy, Ethics, Epistemology, Philosophy of Religion, Philosophy, Political Philosophy