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Article: Natural Law and Human Dignity: Universal Ethics in an Historical World.(Book Review)
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- Theological Studies
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- December 1, 2004
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NATURAL LAW AND HUMAN DIGNITY: UNIVERSAL ETHICS IN AN HISTORICAL WORLD. By Eberhard Schockenhoff. Translated from the German by Brian McNeil. Washington: Catholic University of America, 2003. Pp. xi + 330. $44.95; $24.95.
Schockenhoff's principal objective is to defend a version of natural law capable of grounding universal moral claims while simultaneously overcoming common objections to natural law theory. To this end, he devotes the first chapter to problems associated with natural law reasoning, and then in the next two chapters discusses at length two of the most serious objections to natural law, relativism and historicism. Although these two chapters are ...