Father Schall on natural law and its discontents

August 21, 2012

Father James Schall observes that the study of natural law has been enormously popular in our time:

I think of Maritain, Simon, Rommen, Veatch, Finnis, Hittinger, Kreeft, Fortin, Benestad, Rice, Budziszewski, Arkes, Kries, George, Sokolowski, d'Entrèves, and a host of others.

Nevertheless, despite academic interest, popular interest in natural law has sunk to a new low ebb. Father Schall explains how, without a fundamental accord on the basic principles of natural law, governments cannot establish a logical basis for human rights or for the limits of government power.

 

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Further information:

• On Natural Law (The Catholic Thing)