Intelligible Goods and Insight

Abstract In this essay, I suggest new natural lawyers can draw on the work of Bernard Lonergan to explain their account of the per se nota. Further, Lonergan’s analysis of the differentiation of consciousness in patterns of experience, realms of meaning, and horizons supplements the differentiation of the four orders of reason so often referenced by the new natural lawyers. With these distinctions, the essay argues that differences among the various theories of natural law are primarily about which order of reason, which pattern of experience, and which realm of meaning is assumed.