McCarthy, David M.Pinches, Charles R.2020-03-052020-03-052016-10-112016-11-010953-946810.1177/0953946815610022http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/3873285The article offers a proposal about natural law inquiry in terms of knowledge attendant in the practices of a craft. We begin by discussing Aristotle’s analogical use of crafts in considering knowledge of ethics and politics in the Nicomachean Ethics. We inquire further into craft as a way of knowing by consulting the works of psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and sociologist Richard Sennett. The framework of a craft is connected to moral realism through an analysis of works by Iris Murdoch and Simone Weil. Finally we provide a proposal for natural law inquiry in relation to the embodied and embedded nature of craft.Magazine/Journaleng© The Author(s) 2015CraftcraftsmanshipIris Murdochmoral realismnatural lawThomas AquinasArticle