This article responds to four criticisms of the Catholic view natural law: (1) it commits naturalistic fallacy, (2) makes divine revelation unnecessary, (3) implausibly claims establish a shared universal set moral beliefs, and (4) disregards noetic effects sin. Relying largely on Church’s most important theologian law, St. Thomas Aquinas, author argues that each criticism rests misunderstandin...

First, is existence really not essential by my definition? My answer is that it is neither universally essential, nor universally non-essential, and not by the definition Michael considers. The reason for this answer is that the definition Michael considers does not express the sense in which I claim (as I believe, together with Aquinas) that ‘exists’ is not an essential predicate of creatures,...

All aspects of Jewish life are dealt with: the Jewish population, the community, economic life, family and social life, religious life and morality, literature, the fine arts, the Renaissance in daily life, and the world of science. In the last of these there is a section on medical science and physicians, but it occupies only six pages. However, this book, which appeared first in Hebrew, is an...