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Author : Jonathan Crowe
Release : 2019-04-25
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Natural Law and the Nature of Law by : Jonathan Crowe
Download or read book Natural Law and the Nature of Law written by Jonathan Crowe. This book was released on 2019-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a systematic, contemporary defence of the natural law outlook in ethics, politics and jurisprudence.
Author : Knud Haakonssen
Release : 1996-02-23
Genre : Law
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Book Synopsis Natural Law and Moral Philosophy by : Knud Haakonssen
Download or read book Natural Law and Moral Philosophy written by Knud Haakonssen. This book was released on 1996-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing the most comprehensive guide to modern natural law theory available, this major contribution to the history of philosophy sets out the full background to liberal ideas of rights and contractarianism, and offers an extensive study of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Author : G. W. F. Hegel
Release : 2011-07-12
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Natural Law by : G. W. F. Hegel
Download or read book Natural Law written by G. W. F. Hegel. This book was released on 2011-07-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came into being. In attempting to solve this problem philosophers developed the idea of natural law, which for many centuries was used to describe the system of fundamental, rational principles presumed universally to govern human behavior in society. By the eighteenth century the doctrine of natural law had engendered the related doctrine of natural rights, which gained reinforcement most famously in the American and French revolutions. According to this view, human society arose through the association of individuals who might have chosen to live alone in scattered isolation and who, in coming together, were regarded as entering into a social contract. In this important early essay, first published in English in this definitive translation in 1975 and now returned to print, Hegel utterly rejects the notion that society is purposely formed by voluntary association. Indeed, he goes further than this, asserting in effect that the laws brought about in various countries in response to force, accident, and deliberation are far more fundamental than any law of nature supposed to be valid always and everywhere. In expounding his view Hegel not only dispenses with the empiricist explanations of Hobbes, Hume, and others but also, at the heart of this work, offers an extended critique of the so-called formalist positions of Kant and Fichte.
Author : Ellen Frankel Paul
Release : 2001-01-29
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Natural Law and Modern Moral Philosophy: Volume 18, Social Philosophy and Policy, Part 1 by : Ellen Frankel Paul
Download or read book Natural Law and Modern Moral Philosophy: Volume 18, Social Philosophy and Policy, Part 1 written by Ellen Frankel Paul. This book was released on 2001-01-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this volume--written by academic lawyers as well as legal and moral philosophers--address some of the most intriguing questions raised by natural law theory and its implications for law, morality, and public policy. Some of the essays explore the implications that natural law theory has for jurisprudence, asking what natural law suggests about the use of legal devices such as constitutions and precedents. Other essays examine the connections between natural law and natural rights.
Author : Craig A. Boyd
Release : 2007-11-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis A Shared Morality by : Craig A. Boyd
Download or read book A Shared Morality written by Craig A. Boyd. This book was released on 2007-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morality based on natural law has a long tradition, and has proven to be quite resilient in the face of numerous attacks and challenges over the years. Those challenges are no less serious today, which leads one to ask if natural law is still a viable foundation for ethics. Craig Boyd provides a contemporary defense of natural law theory against modern challenges from the arenas of science, religion, culture, and philosophy. In his analysis, he defends many of the classical elements of natural law, but also takes into account the contributions of scientific discoveries about human nature. He concludes that natural law is a necessary but not sufficient basis for ethics that must be accompanied by a theory of virtue.
