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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe  I simply have my doubts that "natural law" (whatever that is) is adequate to meet the Christ-hater on neutral, common-ground. The two different cities have two different teloses. While they may overlap on the term "good," they ultimately have two different (and perhaps even antithetical) conceptions of the good. |
True, but this is epistemic. "The good" is an ontic common ground. Hence there is agreement in principle that man is to seek what is good, excepting of course the nihilistic theories which have emerged from time to time.