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Is Contemporary Natural Law Theory a Beneficial Development?: The Attempt to Study Natural Law and the Human Good Without Metaphysics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2024

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Copyright © The Dominican Council/Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2005

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2 Ibid.

3 Ibid.

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9 Ibid., 33.

10 Ibid., 34.

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12 Ibid., 80.

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14 Finnis, 33.

15 Finnis, 102.

16 Braybrooke, 37.

17 Braybrooke, 9.