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A Response to Martin Rhonheimer

University of Notre Dame, 130 Malloy Hall, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA, jean.porter.3{at}nd.edu

In this response, I address Professor Rhonheimer’s charge that I deny the rational character of the natural law in my recent book. On the contrary, my theory of natural law is developed through an extended analysis of the ways in which reason draws on and informs the intelligibilities inherent in nature, understood in diverse ways. In this response, I focus on two issues to which Professor Rhonheimer gives extended attention, the first interpretative, the second constructive—namely, first, Aquinas’s conception of reason, its scope and limits, and secondly, the prospects for moral universalism.

Key Words: Aquinas • moral universalism • natural law • reason

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