PHILIP E. DEVINE is Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, where he frequently teaches in the Program on the Development of Western Civilization./e He is the author of The Ethics of Homicide (1978), Relativism, Nihilism and God (1989), and Human Diversity and the Culture Wars (Praeger, 1996).

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• Preface Introduction: The Need for Natural Law Preliminaries What Can Philosophy Do? The Epistemological Issues (1) The Epistemological Issues (2) Human Nature The Quest for the Self (1) The Quest for the Self (2) The Testimony of History and Cultural Anthropology The Testimony of Biology and Physics From Goods to Rights Goods Virtues Duties Rights The Question of Absolutes Religion, Politics, and Society The Basis of Community Conclusion Appendix Selected Bibliography Index

PHILIP E. DEVINE is Professor of Philosophy at Providence College, where he frequently teaches in the Program on the Development of Western Civilization./e He is the author of The Ethics of Homicide (1978), Relativism, Nihilism and God (1989), and Human Diversity and the Culture Wars (Praeger, 1996).

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• Preface Introduction: The Need for Natural Law Preliminaries What Can Philosophy Do? The Epistemological Issues (1) The Epistemological Issues (2) Human Nature The Quest for the Self (1) The Quest for the Self (2) The Testimony of History and Cultural Anthropology The Testimony of Biology and Physics From Goods to Rights Goods Virtues Duties Rights The Question of Absolutes Religion, Politics, and Society The Basis of Community Conclusion Appendix Selected Bibliography Index