Natural Law Today

With essays by some of the best writers on the natural law, including J. Budziszewski, Steven Long, Hadley Harkes, Christopher Wolfe, and one of the last essays written by the late, great Ralph McInerny (with the very characteristic title, “A Natural Lawman at the O.K. Corral”), this volume is a superb resource and that unique accomplishment in modern publishing: a collection of essays that fits together, makes a coherent argument, and is not filled with essays you don’t want. Editors Brust and Wolfe have done a nice piece of work here bringing these essays together.” -- Randall B. Smith, University of St. Thomas, Houston
The editors of Natural Law Today have done us a great service by crafting a volume containing many of the most luminous authorities on natural law. The contributions by Pakaluk, Budziszewki, and Arkes are particularly enlightening. One chapter alone, the essay by the late, great Ralph McInerny, is well worth the price of the volume. No student of the natural law, indeed no professor of the natural law, can afford to miss this book. -- Christopher Kaczor, Loyola Marymount University
An extraordinarily well designed collection of essays, Natural Law Today: The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy covers the key aspects of the philosophy of natural law such as metaphysics and human nature, moral universalism and rational cogency, faith and reason, and the issue of natural rights and liberal political order. Led by the stellar authorities on natural law such as Arkes, McInerny, Budziszewski and Wolfe, the authors are uniformly outstanding in their contributions. This book deserves to become the standard work for a clear and comprehensive account of natural law. -- John P. Hittinger, University of St. Thomas, Houston