Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation

My approach lo the natural law is inspired by an article by Henry Veatch, ''Natural Law: Dead or Alive?'' originally published in 1978.1 After a brief but encyclopedic review of the natural law since Saint Thomas Aquinas, whom he interprets in good Aristotelian fashion, Veatch concludes that even today those who talk about rights remain dependent on a natural law they do not acknowledge. Consider Alan Gewirth's Reason and Morality (1978), which argues that human agents must recognize that their actions are both purposive, as well as voluntary and free. Furthermore, to recognize this is to recognize that this suite of affairs is good. But, to acknowledge that this is true for me is also to acknowledge that it must be good for any and every other human being.