Knowing The Natural Law
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Knowing The Natural Law
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Author : Steven J. Jensen
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2015-03-26
Knowing The Natural Law written by Steven J. Jensen and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-26 with Philosophy categories.
Knowing the Natural Law traces the thought of Aquinas from an understanding of human nature to a knowledge of the human good, from there to an account of ought-statements, and finally to choice, which issues in human actions. The much discussed article on the precepts of the natural law (I-II, 94, 2) provides the framework for a natural law rooted in human nature and in speculative knowledge. Practical knowledge is itself threefold: potentially practical knowledge, virtually practical knowledge, and fully practical knowledge.
Law From Within
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Author : Kenneth E. Bartle
language : en
Publisher: Balboa Press
Release Date : 2017-07-14
Law From Within written by Kenneth E. Bartle and has been published by Balboa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-14 with Social Science categories.
Mankind is centuries overdue for a sharp mental and moral shakeup! Men and women know nothing but servility, slavery, and unceasing tyranny. What else can there be but bloodshed when society authorises a state to make laws enforceable by gunpowder, or when government rules moralitydespite that rule is immoral by nature. Natural law answers those questions, but who knows what natural law is? Kenneth E Bartles Law From Within reveals the Principles of Natural law. Astounding revelations offer a new appraisal of Mans nature. Consciousness, subconscious mind, free will, conscience, emotions, ethics, morality, and justice, are explored in a loving manner for thinking minds. Bartles forty years of research and study challenge several olden-day ideologies, human and social sciences tried and found wanting. Diagrams help explain twenty natural laws showing the Creators bountiful invitation to truly live. These rules of process exist for our benefit and joy; free will upheld unreservedly. Grasp these vital natural law principles, as Law from Within, and you will see how virtuous natural laws belonging to all of usmay forge a free, moral, and just society for you and your children; one never dreamed. Your life and their lives are in your hands.
From Human Dignity To Natural Law
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Author : Richard Berquist
language : en
Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
Release Date : 2019-10-11
From Human Dignity To Natural Law written by Richard Berquist and has been published by Catholic University of America Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-11 with Law categories.
From Human Dignity to Natural Law shows how the whole of the natural law, as understood in the Aristotelian Thomistic tradition, is contained implicitly in human dignity. Human dignity means existing for one’s own good (the common good as well as one’s individual good), and not as a mere means to an alien good. But what is the true human good? This question is answered with a careful analysis of Aristotle’s definition of happiness. The natural law can then be understood as the precepts that guide us in achieving happiness. To show that human dignity is a reality in the nature of things and not a mere human invention, it is necessary to show that human beings exist by nature for the achievement of the properly human good in which happiness is found. This implies finality in nature. Since contemporary natural science does not recognize final causality, the book explains why living things, as least, must exist for a purpose and why the scientific method, as currently understood, is not able to deal with this question. These reflections will also enable us to respond to a common criticism of natural law theory: that it attempts to derive statements of what ought to be from statements about what is. After defining the natural law and relating it to human or positive law, Richard Berquist considers Aquinas’s formulation of the first principle of the natural law. It then discusses the love commandments to love God above all things and to love one’s neighbor as oneself as the first precepts of the natural law. Subsequent chapters are devoted to clarifying and defending natural law precepts concerned with the life issues, with sexual morality and marriage, and with fundamental natural rights. From Human Dignity to Natural Law concludes with a discussion of alternatives to the natural law.
After The Natural Law
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Author : John Lawrence Hill
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2016
After The Natural Law written by John Lawrence Hill and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016 with Philosophy categories.
The "natural law" worldview developed over the course of almost two thousand years beginning with Plato and Aristotle and culminating with St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. This tradition holds that the world is ordered, intelligible and good, that there are objective moral truths which we can know and that human beings can achieve true happiness only by following our inborn nature, which draws us toward our own perfection. Most accounts of the natural law are based on a God-centered understanding of the world. After the Natural Law traces this tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas and then describes how and why modern philosophers such as Descartes, Locke and Hobbes began to chip away at this foundation. The book argues that natural law is a necessary foundation for our most important moral and political values – freedom, human rights, equality, responsibility and human dignity, among others. Without a theory of natural law, these values lose their coherence: we literally cannot make sense of them given the assumptions of modern philosophy. Part I of the book traces the development of natural law theory from Plato and Aristotle through the crowning achievement of Thomas Aquinas. Part II explores how modern philosophers have systematically chipped away at the only coherent foundation for these values. As a result, our most important moral and political ideals today are incoherent. Modern political and moral thinkers have been led either to dilute the meaning of such terms as freedom or the moral good – or abandon these ideas altogether. Thus, modern philosophy and political thought are leading us either toward anarchy or totalitarianism. The conclusion, entitled "Why God Matters", shows how even the philosophical assumptions of the natural law depend on a personal God.
Natural Law
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Author : David VanDrunen
language : en
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Release Date : 2023-11-01
Natural Law written by David VanDrunen and has been published by B&H Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-01 with Religion categories.
David VanDrunen’s Natural Law: A Short Companion outlines what Scripture teaches about natural law. Scripture never uses the term “natural law,” but it repeatedly refers to the reality of natural law or assumes its existence. The existence of natural law underlies what Scripture says about God’s own nature, the cosmic order, the image of God, human community, the gospel of Christ, and the final judgment. Moreover, the story of Scripture from the original creation to the new creation wouldn’t hold together without natural law. Through this work, readers should come to know their Bibles better and know God better.
Natural Law Guidebook
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Author : Anjali Romaniuk
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-12-22
Natural Law Guidebook written by Anjali Romaniuk and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-22 with categories.
Natural Law is a set of Universal, inherent, objective, non-man-made, eternal and immutable conditions which govern the consequences of the behaviors of beings with the capacity for understanding the difference between harmful and non-harmful behavior. The understanding of Natural Law is centered upon bringing our own conscience into alignment with objective morality. This means definitively knowing which behaviors are Right because they do not cause harm to other sentient beings, and which behaviors are wrong because they DO cause harm to other sentient beings. This short guidebook dives into what Natural Law is, and simply describes how Natural Law is always at work in our lives on both an individual and collective level. Now more than ever do these principles need to be understood and integrated.
Rediscovering The Natural Law In Reformed Theological Ethics
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Author : Stephen J. Grabill
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2006-10-05
Rediscovering The Natural Law In Reformed Theological Ethics written by Stephen J. Grabill and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-05 with Law categories.
Is knowledge of right and wrong written on the human heart? Do people know God from the world around them? Does natural knowledge contribute to Christian doctrine? While these questions of natural theology and natural law have historically been part of theological reflection, the radical reliance of twentieth-century Protestant theologians on revelation has eclipsed this historic connection. Stephen Grabill attempts the treacherous task of reintegrating Reformed Protestant theology with natural law by appealing to Reformation-era theologians such as John Calvin, Peter Martyr Vermigli, Johannes Althusius, and Francis Turretin, who carried over and refined the traditional understanding of this key doctrine. Rediscovering the Natural Law in Reformed Theological Ethics calls Christian ethicists, theologians, and laypersons to take another look at this vital element in the history of Christian ethical thought.
The Problem Of Natural Law
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Author : Douglas Kries
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2008
The Problem Of Natural Law written by Douglas Kries and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Law categories.
The Problem of Natural Law examines the understanding of conscience offered by Thomas Aquinas, who provided the classic statement of natural law. The book suggests that natural law theory could be improved by bracketing Thomistic conscience and then shows how a natural law pos...
Biblical Natural Law
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Author : Matthew Levering
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2008-03-21
Biblical Natural Law written by Matthew Levering and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-21 with Religion categories.
Natural law theory is controversial today because it presumes that there is a stable 'human nature' that is subject to a 'law.' How do we know that 'human nature' is stable and not ever-evolving? How can we expect 'law' not to constrict human freedom and potential? Furthermore if there is a 'law,' there must be a lawgiver. Matthew Levering argues that natural law theory makes sense only within a broader worldview, and that the Bible sketches both such a persuasive worldview and an account of natural law that offers an exciting portrait of the moral life. To establish the relevance of biblical readings to the wider philosophical debate on natural law, this study offers an overview of modern natural law theories from Cicero to Nietzsche, which reverse the biblical portrait by placing human beings at the center of the moral universe. Whereas the biblical portrait of natural law is other-directed, ordered to self-giving love, the modern accounts turn inward upon the self. Drawing on the thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, Levering employs theological and philosophical investigation to achieve a contemporary doctrine of natural law that accords with the biblical witness to a loving Creator who draws human beings to share in the divine life. This book provides both an introduction to natural law theory and a compelling challenge to re-think current biblical scholarship on the topic.
The Rise And Fall Of Natural Law
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Author : Friedrich Julius Stahl
language : en
Publisher: WordBridge Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-16
The Rise And Fall Of Natural Law written by Friedrich Julius Stahl and has been published by WordBridge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-16 with Law categories.
Our age is characterized by radical subjectivism. Which is to say: There is no agreement on any absolute standard of value. Indeed, there is no agreement even on truth itself. And as a matter of fact, the very concept of objective, absolute truth has been cast aside in favor of “truths” – your truth, my truth, whoever’s truth. The result is the abandonment of the pursuit of truth at all, in favor of convictions, emotional appeals in favor of those convictions, and the pursuit of political power to put those convictions in practice. This state of affairs will come as no surprise to those, like Friedrich Julius Stahl, who track the way people think, who know that ideas have consequences and that thought eventually feeds into practice. This is especially the case with legal philosophy. Here is where theory and practice confront each other, where the rubber meets the road. And the history of legal philosophy is the history of ideas having consequences. This history can tell us a great deal about how we arrived at the current state of affairs. When we look at it, we find that the key player in this history is natural law. Once the mainstay of ethical and legal discourse, it is now a forgotten relic. But natural law paved the way for the triumph of subjectivism in the modern world. A strange thing, considering that natural law was supposed to embody an objective standard for judging man-made law. It ended up eliminating that standard. How this came about is the burden of The Rise and Fall of Natural Law. Natural law was born of the Greeks and Romans, adopted by the Christian church, and converted into the bulwark of Christian ethical and legal science. But along the way it became disengaged from the church; and when it did, it played a central role in secularizing Western civilization. Stahl follows this career, from its start in classical antiquity, through to its incorporation in the scholasticism of the Middle Ages, to its secularized versions in the Enlightenment, and culminating in the philosophy of Rousseau and the hard reality of the French Revolution. The subjectivist turn is especially emphasized in the work of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, whose focus on enthusiastic conviction and the primacy of the subject makes him the prophet of the modern world. Although Fichte wrote at the turn of the 19th century, it is in our day that his orientation has triumphed. His story, and the stories of those leading up to him – the leading characters in “the Rise and Fall of Natural Law” – are crucial to understanding the genesis of the modern world.