Deep acknowledgement is made to the scholars who have worked on this project over a number of years in an effort to respond to the increasingly urgent challenge of envisaging a more adequate response to the nature of the moral life.

Thanks is extended to Marquette University Press for the use of G. Grisez, "A Contemporary Natural-Law Ethics," from Moral Philosophy: Historical and Contemporary Essays, William C. Starr and Richars C. Taylor, eds., pp. 125-143.

Thanks are due as well to the devoted attention of B. Kennedy, Nancy Graham, Linda Perez, Carol Dupré and Hu Yeping for their work in the development of the manuscript.