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It is indeed an honor to offer comments on Professor J. Budziszewski's work. There is so much that he covers in his paper, I cannot possibly address it all. Moreover, I find myself in agreement with the paper's thesis as well as the comments he makes about natural law and its relationship to philosophical anthropology, moral philosophy, political theory, and philosophical theology. So, what I would like to do in the few pages given me is to take some of his points and to cash them out in ways that both support his thesis and respond to two different types of critics. I will begin with a brief story. Several years ago when I was on the philosophy department faculty at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, when the school sported a very good basketball team, one of my students, obviously frustrated with the points I was making in class, blurted out the question, "Why is the truth important?" I distinctly remember the befuddled look on her face seconds after I offered the reply, "Do you want the true answer or the false one?" A few days later, in the same class, another student, taking up the cause of his befuddled peer, claimed, with great confidence, that there are no objective moral norms and that there was no way that anyone, including his professor, could possibly show him otherwise. At that point, I looked at him squarely in the eye, with as stern a facial expression I could muster, and told him, "Please sit down and shut up. I am right and you are wrong. And that's that." He was, as one would guess, visibly shaken. There was dead silence in the classroom. His peers, who were obviously displeased with the treatment he received, were not about to come to his defense. They were, rightfully, upset with their professor. But they remained mute. So, I let the moment sink in, for about 15 seconds, though it seemed like an eternity.

Doing What Comes Naturally and Not Knowing It