Conservatives, Liberals, and the Natural Law, II.

Presents a discussion on natural law, the law based upon man's innate moral sense. Attack of the classical Aristotelian-Ciceronian-Thomist doctrine, which was grounded essentially in Reformation theology; Opinion of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who emphasized the inability of the rationalistic natural law doctrine to do justice to man's radical freedom above and beyond all structure; Affirmation of Conservatives to the doctrine of the higher law as the very cornerstone of their moral, social and political philosophy; Revulsion of opinion has been under way, which has brought many an erstwhile Liberal to a new understanding and appreciation of the tradition of the higher law.