Natural Law & the Secular Mythos

<b>This book argues that natural law - when construed as an epistemological and trans-cultural <i>lingua franca</i> adjudged capable of legitimating the rational intelligibility and universal applicability of specific Christian moral principles within contemporary secular discourse - has failed.</b><br/><br/>Through a detailed analysis of the contributions of three prominent natural law theorists who are located within a shared philosophical-theological tradition namely John Finnis Jean Porter and John Milbank the text illuminates the extent to which this failure is as much intramural as it is extramural. <br/><br/>Morgan explores how new horizons open up for natural law if the theological unsaid(s) are allowed to surface and the disremembering power of the secular <i>mythos</i>is overcome. The final chapter(s) of the book addresses one such horizon- that the theoretical fulcrum of the natural law lies not in its perceptual self-evidence or in its immanent secularity; but rather in its subtle provision of an immanent eschatology.