The Cambridge Companion To Natural Law Ethics
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.