Pinches, Charles R.McCarthy, David Matzko, Editor.2020-03-052020-03-052016-10-122015-09-011462-317X10.1179/1462317X14Z.000000000114http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/3873288AbstractExtending recent directions in the field and informed by a renewed reading of Aquinas, we argue for a broadened sense of the natural law that radiates to social and political life, not only in the narrow form of positive law but in the life of our institutions that necessarily presume an ordering to the common good. While increasingly under the threat of privatization or bureaucratization in individualistic cultures, institutions can and do function as sites where gifts are freely given and received, shared goods articulated and debated, and friendships formed.Magazine/Journaleng© W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2015natural lawinstitutionsbureaucratizationliberalismcommon goodextrinsic principlemunus regalevirtuefriendshipcivil societyArticle