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“Natural Law, God, Religion, and Human Fulfillment” In April 2001, Grisez delivered the first draft of this article as the annual lecture for the Natural Law Institute at University of Notre Dame Law School. In it, he dealt with the primary principles of practical reason, explained how those principles give rise to religion, and treated the relationships between religion and moral life. He also criticized a thesis of St. Thomas Aquinas, namely, that the true ultimate end of human beings is God alone, attained by the beatific vision. Grisez argued that the true ultimate end is the Kingdom of God, which includes but cannot be reduced to the beatific vision. That lecture was part of a symposium: Natural Law and Human Fulfillment, and several other participants in the symposium criticized some of Grisez's arguments for his position. The article is copyright © University of Notre Dame 2001, all rights reserved. “The True Ultimate End of Human Beings: In this article, Grisez not only answers the critics of the previous one but provides additional arguments for his view and explains it more fully. An important element of that explanation is a brief account (pages 53–57) of the true ultimate end. The article is copyright © Theological Studies, Inc. 2006, all rights reserved. |