text: Part 2
  
  (2) The second meaning is Natural Law as a body of moral conclusions theoretically derived by DEDUCTIVE REASONING from prior moral premises, ultimately presumed to be self-evident. This is the meaning of natural law in the Catholic moral tradition that took hold in the scholastic philosophy of the high middle ages. And it is this body of elusive material the most users of the term in the first sense cannot point to by chapter and verse. I have to date not been able to find on the internet this material as a sustained chain of deduction from self-evident premises as a persuasive, respectable argument in the face of actual DATA to the contrary.