Nature as Reason: A Thomistic Theory of the Natural LawThis noteworthy book develops a new theory of the natural law that takes its orientation from the account of the natural law developed by Thomas Aquinas, as interpreted and supplemented in the context of scholastic theology in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Though this history might seem irrelevant to twenty first century life, Jean Porter shows that the scholastic approach to the natural law still has much to contribute to the contemporary