Unit 1. Aristotle. Politics & the human good
Moral excellence & regime design
Friendship, justice & the moral significance of law
Unit 2. Thomas Aquinas. The grand design of law
The law of nature & the law of man
Human law & regime design
Unit 3. John Locke. The state of nature & the social contract
Private property & revolution
Unit 4. John Stuart Mill. The pleasure principle
The problem with the pleasure principle
Intermezzo. The art of teaching
Unit 5. Written on the heart. A Christian appraisal of natural-law theory
A reprise of the older thinkers
A sampling of recent thinkers
Appendix. Elementary reasoning.
