Natural Law Religion And Rights

Author : Henrik Syse
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015066834261

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Natural Law, Religion, and Rights by Henrik Syse Pdf

This book discusses some of those ethical and political questions that puzzled several of the great minds of the twentieth century, such as Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin, Jacques Maritain, and John Finnis: the question of natural law and its relationship to a teaching of individual freedom and rights. The main aim of the book is to interpret anew the relationship between law and rights in Thomas Hobbes and John Locke, two important founders of modern rights doctrines. But in order to put their teachings into the right perspective, Syse also portrays and discusses other models of law and rights, from Aristotle, through Thomas Aquinas, to John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham, with detours to the teachings of Plato, Cicero, and Augustine. Throughout the discussion, the role of religion and revelation is given center stage as a complex, yet fascinating picture of the relationship between natural law, religion, and rights emerges -- one which is neither as simple nor as complicated as often imagined. Natural Law, Religion, and Rights should be of interest both to students struggling with the meaning and contents of the natural law tradition, as well as to teachers and researchers working on the many-faceted problems of natural law and natural rights.

Author : Brian Tierney
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : J. Daryl Charles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781317089735

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Natural Law and Religious Freedom by J. Daryl Charles Pdf

Every successive generation finds fresh reasons for the study of natural law. Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive moral pessimism in the Western cultural context and wider contemporary geopolitical challenges. Those geopolitical challenges result from two significant and worrisome global developments – unprecedented violent persecution of religious minorities on several continents and a growing climate of secular hostility toward religious faith in Western societies. Natural Law and Religious Freedom aims to address what is relatively absent from the literature by demonstrating the importance of natural law ethics in both establishing and preserving basic human rights, of which religious freedom has pride of place. Probing contemporary challenges to natural law thinking that are both internal and external to religious faith, and examining the character and constitution of natural law ethics, Natural Law and Religious Freedom will be of interest to theologians, ethicists and philosophers as well as policy analysts, politicians and activists who are concerned to anchor religious freedom and human rights policy considerations in an enduring way.

Author : Pierre Manent
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268107239

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Natural Law and Human Rights by Pierre Manent Pdf

This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the natural law by the modern conception of human rights. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political order that is fully compatible with liberty. Manent boldly confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated the classical and Christian notion of “liberty under law” and in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate obligations from a condition of what Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau call the “state of nature,” where human beings are absolutely free, with no obligations to others. In his view, our ever-more-imperial affirmation of human rights needs to be reintegrated into what he calls an “archic” understanding of human and political existence, where law and obligation are inherent in liberty and meaningful human action. Otherwise we are bound to act thoughtlessly and in an increasingly arbitrary or willful manner. Natural Law and Human Rights will engage students and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion, and will captivate sophisticated readers who are interested in the question of how we might reconfigure our knowledge of, and talk with one another about, politics.

Author : Hunter Ian Hunter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474449250

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Philosophy, Rights and Natural Law by Hunter Ian Hunter Pdf

Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with the interests of early modern polities and churches. The essays collected in this volume range across this exciting and contested field. These 13 new essays acknowledge Haakonssen's immense academic achievement and give us new insights into the cultural and political role of law and rights in a variety of historical contexts and circumstances.

Author : Kody W. Cooper
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780268103040

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Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law by Kody W. Cooper Pdf

Has Hobbesian moral and political theory been fundamentally misinterpreted by most of his readers? Since the criticism of John Bramhall, Hobbes has generally been regarded as advancing a moral and political theory that is antithetical to classical natural law theory. Kody W. Cooper challenges this traditional interpretation of Hobbes in Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law. Hobbes affirms two essential theses of classical natural law theory: the capacity of practical reason to grasp intelligible goods or reasons for action and the legally binding character of the practical requirements essential to the pursuit of human flourishing. Hobbes’s novel contribution lies principally in his formulation of a thin theory of the good. This book seeks to prove that Hobbes has more in common with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of natural law philosophy than has been recognized. According to Cooper, Hobbes affirms a realistic philosophy as well as biblical revelation as the ground of his philosophical-theological anthropology and his moral and civil science. In addition, Cooper contends that Hobbes's thought, although transformative in important ways, also has important structural continuities with the Aristotelian-Thomistic tradition of practical reason, theology, social ontology, and law. What emerges from this study is a nuanced assessment of Hobbes’s place in the natural law tradition as a formulator of natural law liberalism. This book will appeal to political theorists and philosophers and be of particular interest to Hobbes scholars and natural law theorists.

Author : Jean Porter
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Law
ISBN : 0802846971

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Natural and Divine Law by Jean Porter Pdf

Though the concept of natural law took center stage during the Middle Ages, the theological aspects of this august intellectual tradition have been largely forgotten by the modern church. In this book ethicist Jean Porter shows the continuing significance of the natural law tradition for Christian ethics. Based on a careful analysis of natural law as it emerged in the medieval period, Porter's work explores several important scholastic theologians and canonists whose writings are not only worthy of study in their own right but also make important contributions to moral reflection today.

Author : Norman Doe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107186446

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Christianity and Natural Law by Norman Doe Pdf

This book compares historical and modern natural law ideas across global Christian traditions and explores their use in church law.

Author : Anver M. Emon,Matthew Levering,David Novak
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780198706601

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Natural Law by Anver M. Emon,Matthew Levering,David Novak Pdf

This book critically and constructively explores the resources offered for natural law doctrine by classical thinkers from three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Three scholars each offer a programmatic essay on natural law doctrine in their particular religious tradition and then respond to the other two essays.

Author : Richard Berquist,Jensen
Publisher : Catholic University of America Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780813232423

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From Human Dignity to Natural Law by Richard Berquist,Jensen Pdf

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.

Author : Harry J. Gensler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107052444

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Ethics and Religion by Harry J. Gensler Pdf

This book develops strong versions of divine command theory and natural law and defends the importance of God to morality.

Author : Jacques Maritain
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Human rights
ISBN : UOM:49015000624339

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The Rights of Man and Natural Law by Jacques Maritain Pdf

Author : James E. Bruce
Publisher : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783647550596

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Rights in the Law by James E. Bruce Pdf

James E. Bruce explores the relationship between morality and God's free choices in the thought of Francis Turretin (1623–1687). The first book-length treatment of Turretin's natural law theory, Rights in the Law provides an important theological backdrop to Early Modern moral and political philosophy. Turretin affirms Thomas Aquinas's approach to the natural law, calling it the common opinion of the Reformed orthodox, but he develops it, too, by introducing a threefold scheme of right (ius)—divine, natural, and positive—to explain how change within the law is possible. For example, God can change the specific day for Sabbath observance from Saturday to Sunday—from positive right—without changing the natural law precept that finite creatures ought to rest. Yet even with respect to the natural law God is still free. God can make a world in which there is no such thing as murder: he can choose not to make a world that contains such a thing as man. What God cannot do is make a murderable man. So God's free choices determine the natural law insofar as the natural law is constituted by the nature of the things that God has chosen to create.

Author : Peter Stanlis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351312271

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Edmund Burke and the Natural Law by Peter Stanlis Pdf

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.

Author : Karen Taliaferro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108423953

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The Possibility of Religious Freedom by Karen Taliaferro Pdf

A theory of religious freedom for the modern era that uses natural law from ancient Greek, Jewish, Christian and Islamic sources.