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The “Natural Law” Rebound

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Leo R. Ward
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In current ethical theory we have been getting two second-order phenomena, each a rebound from a first-order phenomenon.

The first-order phenomena, though with partly the same prompting, come from totally different fields and are miles apart. Even so, a main point of this paper is that the sets of second-order phenomena, rebounding from widely different data, may be tending to converge and, taken radically, may be saying the same thing.

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , January 1959 , pp. 114 - 130
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1959

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