Josef Fuchs on Natural Law

includes index and biblioraphy

PART I The reconversion Period (1941-66) 5 1 Natural Law and the Confrontation with Situation Ethics 7 Introduction 7 Situation Ethics and Roman Catholic Moral Theology 8 Fuchs`s Natural Law Theory and the Conflict With Situationism 13 2 A Fuller Account of Natural Law 36 Natural Law and the Structure of Moral Norms 36 Moral Epistemology and the Magisterium`s Competency to Interpret Natural Law 44 Natural Law and the Role of the Individual Moral Agent 55 Natural Law and the Supernatural Destiny of the Human Person 65 3 The Intellectual Conversion: The Pontifical Commission on Population, Family, and Birth, 1963-66 83 Birth Control: The State of the Question 84 The Pontifical Birth Control Commission 87 The Beginnings of Change: Natural Law in the Commission Documents 95 PART II The Postconversion Period (1966-Present) 111 4 Theological Anthropology and Natural Law 116 Reconstructing Natural Laiu: Karl Rahner`s Transcendental Thomism and the Emergence of the Acting Subject 117 Wliat Is the Human Being? Human Nature and Personhood 124 An Assessment of Fuchs`s Theological Anthropology: Contributions and Criticisms 133 The Core of Fuchs`s Mature Natural Law Theory: Recta Ratio as the Proximate Norm of Morality 148 Natural Law and Recta Ratio 148 The Magisterium and Recta Ratio 158 Contributions and Criticisms 182 Natural Law, Christian Faith, and Moral Norms 203 Introduction 203 Christian Morality and Natural Law 206 Natural Law and the Validity of Moral Norms 217 Exceptionless Moral Norms? 223