Does the Grisez-Finnis-Boyle Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?
Abstract
WHO IN TODAY'S WORLD OF PHILOSOPHY has not been made acutely aware of a singular and even felicitous phenomenon that has arisen in recent moral philosophy from within the natural law tradition? This is the phenomenon of three philosophers of whom it might be said that not only do they have "hearts that beat as one," but even their minds would appear to think as one as well: Germain Grisez, John Finnis, and Joseph Boyle. What could be more appropriate for economy of reference in our critical study than if we simply refer to them henceforth as "the Grifinnboyle"?