Natural Law Laws Of Nature Natural Rights

Author : Francis Oakley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780826417657

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Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights by Francis Oakley Pdf

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 The existence and grounding of human or natural rights is a heavily contested issue today, not only in the West but in the debates raging between "fundamentalists" and "liberals" or "modernists in the Islamic world. So, too, are the revised versions of natural law espoused by thinkers such as John Finnis and Robert George. This book focuses on three bodies of theory that developed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries: (1) the foundational belief in the existence of a moral/juridical natural law, embodying universal norms of right and wrong and accessible to natural human reason; (2) the understanding of (scientific) uniformities of nature as divinely imposed laws, which rose to prominence in the seventeenth century; and (3), finally, the notion that individuals are bearers of inalienable natural or human rights. While seen today as distinct bodies of theory often locked in mutual conflict, they grew up inextricably intertwines. The book argues that they cannot be properly understood if taken each in isolation from the others.

Author : Franziska Quabeck
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783643903228

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John Locke's Concept of Natural Law from the Essays on the Law of Nature to the Second Treatise of Government by Franziska Quabeck Pdf

John Locke's account of natural law, which forms the very basis of his political philosophy, has troubled many critics over time. The two works that shed light on Locke's theory are the early Essays on the Law of Nature and the Second Treatise of Government, published over 20 years later. Many critics have assumed that the early work presents a voluntarist approach to natural law and the second a rationalist approach, but the present analysis in this book shows that Locke's theory is consistent. Both works present a concept of the law of nature that must be placed between voluntarism and rationalism. (Series: Polyptoton. Munster Collection, Academic Writings / Polyptoton. Munsteraner Sammlung Akademischer Schriften - Vol. 3)

Author : Heinrich Albert Rommen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105060361834

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The Natural Law by Heinrich Albert Rommen Pdf

Originally published in German in 1936, The Natural Law is the first work to clarify the differences between traditional natural law as represented in the writings of Cicero, Aquinas, and Hooker and the revolutionary doctrines of natural rights espoused by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau. Heinrich A. Rommen (1897-1967) taught in Germany and England before concluding his distinguished scholarly career at Georgetown University. Russell Hittinger is William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law at the University of Tulsa. Please note: This title is available as an ebook for purchase on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and iTunes.

Author : Richard Cumberland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1727
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041207437

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A Treatise of the Laws of Nature by Richard Cumberland Pdf

Author : John Finnis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : LAW
ISBN : 9780199599134

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Natural Law and Natural Rights by John Finnis Pdf

This book uses contemporary analytical tools to provide basic accounts of values and principles, community and 'common good', justice and human rights, authority, law, the varieties of obligation, unjust law, and even the question of divine authority.

Author : Brian Tierney
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802848540

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The Idea of Natural Rights by Brian Tierney Pdf

This series, originally published by Scholars Press and now available from Eerdmans, is intended to foster exploration of the religious dimensions of law, the legal dimensions of religion, and the interaction of legal and religious ideas, institutions, and methods. Written by leading scholars of law, political science, and related fields, these volumes will help meet the growing demand for literature in the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of law and religion.

Author : R. H. Helmholz
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780674504615

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Natural Law in Court by R. H. Helmholz Pdf

Natural-law theory grounds human laws in universal truths of God’s creation. The task of the judicial system was to build an edifice of positive law on natural law’s foundations. R. H. Helmholz shows how lawyers and judges made and interpreted natural law arguments in the West, and concludes that historically it has advanced the cause of justice.

Author : Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves
Publisher : Hutchinson
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Law
ISBN : UCAL:B4372878

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Natural Law by Alessandro Passerin d'Entrèves Pdf

Author : Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0812210832

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Natural Law by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Pdf

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 : Richard Tuck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : 0521285097

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Natural Rights Theories by Richard Tuck Pdf

The origins of natural rights theories in medieval Europe and their development in the seventeenth century.

Author : Howard P. Kainz
Publisher : Open Court Publishing
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Law
ISBN : 0812694546

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Natural Law by Howard P. Kainz Pdf

Is there such a thing as an objective law of morality? Natural law theorists maintain that there is, and Natural Law probes the history and implications of this powerful concept. Tracing the development of natural law from ancient times to the present, the book also examines the leading figures, transitions, and turning points in the idea's evolution, and brings a natural law approach to contemporary issues such as abortion, homosexuality, and assisted suicide.

Author : Dan Edelstein
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226184401

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The Terror of Natural Right by Dan Edelstein Pdf

Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.

Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317089766

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Natural Law and Laws of Nature in Early Modern Europe by Michael Stolleis Pdf

This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew heavily on theology and moral philosophy, and vice versa. Historians of science, law, philosophy, and theology from Europe and North America here come together to address these central themes and to consider the question; was the emergence of natural law both in European jurisprudence and natural philosophy merely a coincidence, or did these disciplinary traditions develop within a common conceptual matrix, in which theological, philosophical, and political arguments converged to make the analogy between legal and natural orders compelling. This book will stimulate new debate in the areas of intellectual history and the history of philosophy, as well as the natural and human sciences in general.

Author : Alexander Passerin d'Entreves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351503495

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Natural Law by Alexander Passerin d'Entreves Pdf

This is the classic study of the history and continuing philosophical values of the law of nature. D'Entreves discerned three distinct sources that have contributed to the development of natural law: Roman law teachings, Christian beliefs regarding law, and egalitarian and revolutionary theories of the Enlightenment. Now regarded as a classic work, Natural Law has exercised considerable influence over the course of Anglo-American legal theory in the past forty years. The statements of Clarence Thomas during his 1991 Senate confirmation hearings show that the law of nature still holds powerful appeal in defining judicial rules.In the new introduction, Cary J. Nederman points out both the contemporary value and the historical significance of Natural Law. He also provides the biographical as well as intellectual context for d'Entreves immense accomplishments. This volume is essential reading for students of legal history, political theory, and philosophy. It will also be of interest to historians.Few texts provide as concise or as cogent an introduction to natural theory as Alexander Passerin d'Entreves' Natural Law: An Introduction to Legal Philosophy.... Transaction Publishers has performed a genuine service by bringing out a new edition of Natural Law. D'Entreves' analysis is clear and penetrating, and will guide the student of natural law to further, fruitful study.—Mitchell Muncy, The University Bookman

Author : Albert Cook Outler,Thomas S. K. Scott-Craig,Edwin W. Patterson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258404966

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Natural Law and Natural Rights by Albert Cook Outler,Thomas S. K. Scott-Craig,Edwin W. Patterson Pdf

Additional Author Is Arthur L. Harding. Southern Methodist University Studies In Jurisprudence, 2.