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Lon Fuller Fuller, professor of Jurisprudence at Harvard, was one of the thinkers responsible for the revival of natural law thinking in the mid-20th century. Note (in very small type) the date (1969) of his book. Modern natural law theorists (other than those explicitly within the traditions of Roman Catholic moral philosophy) are secular in their outlook. They thus differ from classical natural law thinking in not supporting their theories with a grand metaphysics, as does St. Thomas. They have no special views about the purpose of life, the role of nature, the sources of human wisdom etc. Even the terminology 'natural law' or what we have called 'principles of natural justice' may seem to them to carry too much theological baggage. They do believe however in what they tend to call 'moral principles.' Fuller calls his principles 'procedural' rather than substantive. He also calls the morality that's required for...

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