PHIL 304 Essay Question:
What does natural law have to do with metaphysics?

Requirements: 10 pages, double-spaced, with a minimum of 10 items in the Bibliography.

To help formulate an answer for your essay, be sure to consult these two sources:

1. Natural Law especially the chapter "On Knowledge through Connaturality"

2. Robert Sokolowski, "What is Natural Law?", The Thomist 68 (2004): 507-29.

 

Additional Resources (optional):

3. Benedict XVI, "Address to the participants of the International Congress on Natural Moral Law" (Feb 12, 2007)

4. Benedict XVI, "Message for the 2007 World Day of Peace: The Human Person, the Heart of Peace" (Jan 1, 2007)

5. Benedict XVI, "Message for the 2008 World Day of Peace: The Human Family, a Community of Peace" (Jan 1, 2008)

6. moreC.com/schall

7. moreC.com/schall

8. moreC.com/schall

9. Further writings on natural law by James V. Schall

10. Karol Wojtyla, "The Person: Subject and Community", Review of Metaphysics 33 (1979): 273-308.

11. Martin Rhonheimer, "The Cognitive Structure of the Natural Law and the Truth of Subjectivity", The Thomist 67 (2003): 1-44

12. Further writings by Robert Sokolowski on natural law and the human person

13. Douglas A. Sylva, "The Pope and the United Nations", First Things: On the Square Blog (Wednesday, February 27, 2008, 7:50 AM)

14. Aquinas on Natural Law

15. James V. Schall, "Reflections on the Natural Law", First Principles (05/08/08)

16. Raymond Dennehy, "THE ONTOLOGICAL BASIS OF HUMAN RIGHTS", The Thomist 42 (July 1978): 434-463.

17. J. Budziszewski, "The Second Tablet Project", The Harvard Ichthus (November 1, 2006).

18. George J. Marlin on "The Social Animal" with "that God-given spiritual power – the reflecting mind" which is able to know natural law

19. Acton Institute