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Moral Identity and the Natural Law Theory

A Response to Tollefsen’s “Natural Law and Modern Meta-Ethics: A Guided Tour”

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Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics

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Jotterand, F. (2004). Moral Identity and the Natural Law Theory. In: Cherry, M.J. (eds) Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics. Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2224-7_4

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