The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics
Author: Tom Angier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 359
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1108422632

How do ethical norms relate to human nature? This comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume surveys the latest thinking on natural law.

The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence

The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence
Author: George Duke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2017-06-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107120519

This volume brings together leading experts on natural law theory to provide perspectives on the nature and foundations of law.

The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence

The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence
Author: George Duke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2017-06-16
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108155928

This collection provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of key topics in contemporary natural law jurisprudence, an influential yet frequently misunderstood branch of legal philosophy. It fills a gap in the existing literature by bringing together leading international experts on natural law theory to provide perspectives on some of the most pressing issues pertaining to the nature and moral foundations of law. Themes covered include the history of the natural law tradition, the natural law account of practical reason, normativity and ethics, natural law approaches to legal obligation and authority and constitutional law. Creating a dialogue between leading figures in natural law thought, the Companion is an ideal introduction to the main commitments of natural law jurisprudence, whilst also offering a concise summary of developments in current scholarship for more advanced readers.

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics
Author: Robin Gill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2012
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107000076

Twenty essays providing an authoritative introduction to Christian ethics, addressing issues such as war, social justice, ecology, sexuality and medicine.

Natural Law Theory

Natural Law Theory
Author: Tom Angier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 75
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781108706391

In Section 1, I outline the history of natural law theory, covering Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Aquinas. In Section 2, I explore two alternative traditions of natural law, and explain why these constitute rivals to the Aristotelian tradition. In Section 3, I go on to elaborate a via negativa along which natural law norms can be discovered. On this basis, I unpack what I call three 'experiments in being', each of which illustrates the cogency of this method. In Section 4, I investigate and rebut two seminal challenges to natural law methodology, namely, the fact/value distinction in metaethics and Darwinian evolutionary biology. In Section 5, I then outline and criticise the 'new' natural law theory, which is an attempt to revise natural law thought in light of the two challenges above. I conclude, in Section 6, with a summary and some reflections on the prospects for natural law theory.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics
Author: Thomas Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2018-12-06
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107167744

Offers historical and topical chapters on the whole range of medieval ethical thought in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic philosophy.

Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics

Essays on Hellenistic Epistemology and Ethics
Author: Gisela Striker
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1996-06-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521476416

This collection of essays focuses on key questions debated by Greek and Roman philosophers of the Hellenistic period.

The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith

The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith
Author: Knud Haakonssen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2006-03-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521779241

Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas.

The Cambridge Companion to Ockham

The Cambridge Companion to Ockham
Author: Paul Vincent Spade
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1999-12-13
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521587907

Offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of this medieval philosopher's thought.

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke

The Cambridge Companion to Edmund Burke
Author: David Dwan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2012-10-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1107495652

Edmund Burke prided himself on being a practical statesman, not an armchair philosopher. Yet his responses to specific problems - rebellion in America, the abuse of power in India and Ireland, or revolution in France - incorporated theoretical debates within jurisprudence, economics, religion, moral philosophy and political science. Moreover, the extraordinary rhetorical force of Burke's speeches and writings quickly secured his reputation as a gifted orator and literary stylist. This Companion provides a comprehensive assessment of Burke's thought, exploring all his major writings from his early treatise on aesthetics to his famous polemic, Reflections on the Revolution in France. It also examines the vexed question of Burke's Irishness and seeks to determine how his cultural origins may have influenced his political views. Finally, it aims both to explain and to challenge interpretations of Burke as a romantic, a utilitarian, a natural law thinker and founding father of modern conservatism.