Natural Law and Human Nature
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Father Joseph Koterski S.J.
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The Great Courses
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Father Joseph Koterski S.J.
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Natural law is the idea that there is an objective moral order, grounded in essential humanity, that holds universal and permanent implications for the ways we should conduct ourselves as free and responsible human beings.
These 24 in-depth lectures consider the arguments for natural law, the serious objections that have been raised against it, and the ways, despite all overt criticisms, it remains a vital and even pervasive force in political, moral, and social life today, even while traveling under another name.
Shaping Father Koterski's historical treatment is an appreciation of just how much thought, effort, and brilliance went into formulating and defending the crucial insights of natural law theory. Among other things, you'll look at: the virtual dialogue that took place between the Ionian scientists, the Sophists, and their great interlocutors, Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle; Thomas Aquainas's Summa Theologica, which sets out the account of natural law as that type of law through which humans take part according to their nature as free, intelligent, and responsible beings; the ways, by the American Founders' design, natural law thinking is poured into the foundations of our republican experiment in ordered liberty and constitutional democracy; and the criticisms leveled against natural law by Descartes, Rousseau, and Kant.
Finally, Father Koterski asks whether modern evolutionary biology can claim to have discovered truths about human nature that render natural law theory unintelligible, whether the findings of anthropological research undercut natural law, and whether accepting the idea of natural law means accepting the existence of God and vice versa.
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Au global2 out of 5 stars
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- Maolmhuire Ó Raghallaigh
- 2023-08-31
Should rename it "Natural Law & Catholic Doctrine"
Don't get me wrong. It is completely expected that a course on natural law would talk about Catholic theology, but this goes far beyond that.
We are presented here with a one-sided view. Other approaches to natural law, other philosophers who have conceptualised it outside the tradition, are hardly mentioned and where they are (Kant, Hobbes) it is very brief. Indeed, even within the Catholic tradition, we don't get much more than Aristotle and Aquinas. You'd be forgiven for thinking that nothing else had been written on the subject other than these two.
The rest of the subject material is comprised of an attempts philosophical argumentation, but alternate lines of reasoning are summarily dismissed. The course is more the presenter's views of natural law, rather than a well-rounded, academic argument.
And finally, as other reviewers have noted, the presenter cannot resist the urge to go on repeated tangents as to why Catholic law could shed light on the marriage equality debate ("Is there a natural definition of marriage?" he invites us to consider), why it's justified to suspend the civil rights ("which are, properly speaking, only for citizens") of "aliens", abortion, and evolution. This latter is particularly egregious - he goes on a 10-15 minute tangent about why we should doubt evolution, before adding that it makes no difference either way to the argument he makes. Last I checked, Catholics aren't obliged to be young-earth creationists, so this really is a matter of the presenter's personal biases.
All in all, this seems more like campaign materials from the GOP than the kind of academic course I've come to expect from The Teaching Company.
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