Natural Moral Law In Contemporary Society
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Natural Moral Law In Contemporary Society
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Author : Holger Zaborowski
language : en
Publisher: CUA Press
Release Date : 2010-08
Natural Moral Law In Contemporary Society written by Holger Zaborowski and has been published by CUA Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08 with Law categories.
The essays of this volume examine natural moral law, different natural law theories, and the role that natural law can and should play in our contemporary society
Social Ethics
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Author : Johannes Messner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1965
Social Ethics written by Johannes Messner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1965 with Law categories.
Contemporary Perspectives On Natural Law
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Author : Ana Marta González
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-13
Contemporary Perspectives On Natural Law written by Ana Marta González and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with Philosophy categories.
Resorting to natural law is one way of conveying the philosophical conviction that moral norms are not merely conventional rules. Accordingly, the notion of natural law has a clear metaphysical dimension, since it involves the recognition that human beings do not conceive themselves as sheer products of society and history. And yet, if natural law is to be considered the fundamental law of practical reason, it must show also some intrinsic relationship to history and positive law. The essays in this book examine this tension between the metaphysical and the practical and how the philosophical elaboration of natural law presents this notion as a "limiting-concept", between metaphysics and ethics, between the mutable and the immutable; between is and ought, and, in connection with the latter, even the tension between politics and eschatology as a double horizon of ethics. This book, contributed to by scholars from Europe and America, is a major contribution to the renewed interest in natural law. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of natural law, both from a historical and a systematic point of view. It ranges from the mediaeval synthesis of Aquinas through the early modern elaborations of natural law, up to current discussions on the very possibility and practical relevance of natural law theory for the contemporary mind.
Common Truths
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Author : Edward B. McLean
language : en
Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Release Date : 2000
Common Truths written by Edward B. McLean and has been published by Intercollegiate Studies Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Law categories.
Addresses the questions philosophers have asked for centuries about the ground for man's actions. Why be moral? What is law? What are the limits of coercion within a just and free society? These and similar questions are ancient yet timely; and today, as always, they demand answers. Explicates the historical, theoretical, legislative and juridical aspects of natural law doctrine. The essayists reveal the comprehensiveness and, consequently, the usefulness of natural law theory in deriving human solutions to the problems confronting contemporary society.
The Natural Moral Law The Postmodern Challenge From Modernity To Postmodernity 2 Traditional Natural Law Differences In Aristotle And Aquinas 3 Patterns In Historical Thinking About The Good 4 The Challenge Of Modernity Religious Wars And The Need For Universal Law 5 The Challenges Of Naturalism Legal Realism Or Natural Law 6 Objectivity Without A Metaphysical Foundation 7 Contemporary Natural Law Practical Rationality And Legal Opinions 8 Natural Law As A Theory With Metaphysical Baggage Postmodern Law 9 Natural Law As The Moral Law 10 Natural Moral Law In A Postmodern World
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Author : Owen Anderson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Natural Moral Law The Postmodern Challenge From Modernity To Postmodernity 2 Traditional Natural Law Differences In Aristotle And Aquinas 3 Patterns In Historical Thinking About The Good 4 The Challenge Of Modernity Religious Wars And The Need For Universal Law 5 The Challenges Of Naturalism Legal Realism Or Natural Law 6 Objectivity Without A Metaphysical Foundation 7 Contemporary Natural Law Practical Rationality And Legal Opinions 8 Natural Law As A Theory With Metaphysical Baggage Postmodern Law 9 Natural Law As The Moral Law 10 Natural Moral Law In A Postmodern World written by Owen Anderson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Electronic books categories.
The Natural Moral Law argues that the good can be known and that therefore the moral law, which serves as a basis for human choice, can be understood. Proceeding historically through ancient, modern and postmodern thinkers, Owen Anderson studies beliefs about the good and how it is known, and how such beliefs shape claims about the moral law. The focal challenge is whether the skepticism of postmodern thinkers can be answered in a way that preserves knowledge claims about the good. Considering the failures of modern thinkers to correctly articulate reason and the good and how postmodern thinkers are responding to these failures, Anderson argues that there are identifiable patterns of thinking about what is good, some of which lead to false dichotomies. The book concludes with a consideration of how a moral law might look if the good is correctly identified.
The Natural Moral Law
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Author : Owen Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2012-04-30
The Natural Moral Law written by Owen Anderson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-30 with Law categories.
This book studies beliefs about the good and how it is known, and how such beliefs shape claims about the moral law.
The Threads Of Natural Law
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Author : Francisco José Contreras
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-13
The Threads Of Natural Law written by Francisco José Contreras and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-13 with Philosophy categories.
The notion of “natural law” has repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis. Stoic natural law, for example, emerged precisely when the Ancient World lost the Greek polis, which had been the point of reference for Plato's and Aristotle's political philosophy. In key moments such as this, natural law has enabled moral and legal dialogue between peoples and traditions holding apparently clashing world-views. This volume revisits some of these key moments in intellectual and social history, partly with an eye to extracting valuable lessons for ideological conflicts in the present and perhaps near future. The contributions to this volume discuss both historical and contemporary schools of natural law. Topics on historical schools of natural law include: how Aristotelian theory of rules paved the way for the birth of the idea of "natural law"; the idea's first mature account in Cicero's work; the tension between two rival meanings of “man’s rational nature” in Aquinas’ natural law theory; and the scope of Kant’s allusions to “natural law”. Topics on contemporary natural law schools include: John Finnis's and Germain Grisez's “new natural law theory”; natural law theories in a "broader" sense, such as Adolf Reinach’s legal phenomenology; Ortega y Gasset’s and Scheler’s “ethical perspectivism”; the natural law response to Kelsen’s conflation of democracy and moral relativism; natural law's role in 20th century international law doctrine; Ronald Dworkin’s understanding of law as “a branch of political morality”; and Alasdair Macintyre’s "virtue"-based approach to natural law.
Edmund Burke And The Natural Law
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Author : Peter Stanlis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-09-29
Edmund Burke And The Natural Law written by Peter Stanlis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-29 with Philosophy categories.
Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral, legal, and political thought presents a challenge not faced for almost two hundred years. On the surface, there would appear to be little room in the contemporary world for a widespread belief in natural law. The basic philosophies of the opposition--the rationalism of the philosophes, the utilitarianism of Bentham, the materialism of Marx--appear to have made prior philosophies irrelevant. Yet these newer philosophies themselves have been overtaken by disillusionment born of conflicts between "might" and "right." Many thoughtful people who were loyal to secular belief have become dissatisfied with the lack of normative principles and have turned once more to natural law. This first book-length study of Edmund Burke and his philosophy, originally published in 1958, explores this intellectual giant's relationship to, and belief in, the natural law. It has long been thought that Edmund Burke was an enemy of the natural law, and was a proponent of conservative utilitarianism. Peter J. Stanlis shows that, on the contrary, Burke was one of the most eloquent and profound defenders of natural law morality and politics in Western civilization. A philosopher in the classical tradition of Aristotle and Cicero, and in the Scholastic tradition of Aquinas, Burke appealed to natural law in the political problems he encountered in American, Irish, Indian, and British affairs, and in reaction to the French Revolution. This book is as relevant today as it was when it was first published, and will be mandatory reading for students of philosophy, political science, law, and history.
The Natural Law Reader
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Author : Jacqueline A. Laing
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2013-09-23
The Natural Law Reader written by Jacqueline A. Laing and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-23 with Law categories.
The Natural Law Reader features a selection of readings in metaphysics, jurisprudence, politics, and ethics that are all related to the classical Natural Law tradition in the modern world. Features a concise presentation of the natural law position that offers the reader a focal point for discussion of ancient and contemporary ideas in the natural law tradition Draws upon the metaphysical and ethical categories put forth and developed by Aristotle and Aquinas Points to the historical significance and contemporary relevance of the Natural Law tradition Reflects on a revival of interest in the tradition of virtue ethics and human rights
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.