Quotes

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• "[W]hatever else it may or may not be, the natural law philosophy is not relativist."   

Philip Selznick, "Sociology and Natural Law," 6 Natural Law Forum 84, 91 (1961) (quoted in John E. Coons and Patrik M. Brennan, By Nature Equal: The Anatomy of a Western Insight (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), 124).

• "'Nature'--the image of a reality possessed of an origin, a solidity, and a stability independent of human intervention; a sign for what does not depend on human desire or design; and because of these special characteristics, endowed with an authority that is normative for human conduct."    
  

John T. Noonan, Jr., "The Metaphors of Morals," in W. O'Brien, ed., Riding Time Like a River: The Catholic Moral Tradition Since Vatican II (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1993) 35, 36 (quoted in John E. Coons and Patrik M. Brennan, By Nature Equal: The Anatomy of a Western Insight (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), 294 n. 6).

• "[N]atural law embraces both the issue of law and the issue of virtue."    
  

Russell Hittinger, "Introduction" in Yves R. Simon, The Tradition of Natural Law (New York: Fordham University Press, 2000), xxx.