Evolution and Natural LawToward a Basis for Human Values

Frederick Turner

ContentsAcknowledgementsChapter1. The General Argument2. Two Versions of Natural Law: Thomist and Enlightenment3. The Challenge to Natural Law4. A New Natural Law5. Evolution and Design6. Human Ancestral Conditions and Natural Law7. Biomedical and Reproductive Implications8. Property9. Environmentalism2

10. Government11. Punishment and War12. Religion and State13. Truth, Goodness and Beauty14. The Resistance to Evolutionary Natural Law15. Conclusion: A Research Program in Evolutionary Natural LawTexts Referenced1. The General ArgumentThis book is an attempt to recover a great tradition of moral and legal justice thatlooked to nature (including human nature) as a consensual basis for the assignment of 3