Human Flourishing The End Of Law
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Author |
: W. Michael Reisman |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 1207 |
Release |
: 2023-10-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004524835 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004524835 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Flourishing: The End of Law by : W. Michael Reisman
This rich volume is an homage to the significant impact Professor Siegfried Wiessner has had on scholarship and practice in many areas of international and domestic law. Reflecting the depth and breadth of his writings, it is a collection of thought-provoking, original essays, exploring topics as diverse as theory about law, human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, the rule of law, constitutional law, the rights of migrants, international investment law and arbitration, space law, the use of force, and many more, all integrated by the problem- and policy-oriented framework of what has come to be known as the New Haven School. Its title “Human Flourishing: The End of Law” reflects the conviction that the purpose of law ought to be to allow humans to achieve their full potential - to thrive and develop, both materially and spiritually, under the law. The volume contributes to a vision of the law as a public order in which the common interest is clarified and implemented peacefully, and offers a source of inspiration for scholars and practitioners working towards such an order of human dignity. .
Author |
: Andrew Briggs |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 304 |
Release |
: 2021-10-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780192590855 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0192590855 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Flourishing by : Andrew Briggs
'A careful and thoughtful provocation' (Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury) Ambitiously placed at the intersection of scientific insights and spiritual wisdom, Human Flourishing prompts us to reflect on what constitutes a good life and the choices that can help achieve it. For thousands of years, humans have asked 'Why we are here?' and 'What makes for a good life?' At different times, different answers have held sway. Nowadays, there are more answers proposed than ever. Much of humanity still finds the ultimate answers to such questions in religion. But in countries across the globe, secular views are widely held. In any event, whether religious or secular, individuals, communities and governments still have to make decisions about what people get from life. This book therefore examines what is meant by human flourishing and see what it has to offer for those seeking after truth, meaning and purpose. This is a book written for anyone who wants a future for themselves, their children, and their fellow humans - a future that enables flourishing, pays due consideration to issues of truth and helps us find meaning and purpose in our lives. At a time when most of us are bombarded with messages about what we should or should not do to live healthily, attain a work-life balance and find meaning, a careful consideration of the contributions of both scientific insight and spiritual wisdom provides a new angle. This is therefore a book that not only helps readers clarify their views and see things afresh but also help them improve their own well-being in an age of AI and other new technologies.
Author |
: David McIlroy |
Publisher |
: Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 199 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781788114004 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1788114000 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The End of Law by : David McIlroy
The End of Law applies Augustine’s questions to modern legal philosophy as well as offering a critical theory of natural law that draws on Augustine’s ideas. McIlroy argues that such a critical natural law theory is: realistic but not cynical about law’s relationship to justice and to violence, can diagnose ways in which law becomes deformed and pathological, and indicates that law is a necessary but insufficient instrument for the pursuit of justice. Positioning an examination of Augustine’s reflections on law in the context of his broader thought, McIlroy presents an alternative approach to natural law theory, drawing from critical theory, postmodern thought, and political theologies in conversation with Augustine.
Author |
: Francis Su |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 287 |
Release |
: 2020-01-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300237139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300237138 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Mathematics for Human Flourishing by : Francis Su
"The ancient Greeks argued that the best life was filled with beauty, truth, justice, play and love. The mathematician Francis Su knows just where to find them."--Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine" This is perhaps the most important mathematics book of our time. Francis Su shows mathematics is an experience of the mind and, most important, of the heart."--James Tanton, Global Math Project For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires--such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love--and cultivates virtues essential for human flourishing. These desires and virtues, and the stories told here, reveal how mathematics is intimately tied to being human. Some lessons emerge from those who have struggled, including philosopher Simone Weil, whose own mathematical contributions were overshadowed by her brother's, and Christopher Jackson, who discovered mathematics as an inmate in a federal prison. Christopher's letters to the author appear throughout the book and show how this intellectual pursuit can--and must--be open to all.
Author |
: Stephen Theron |
Publisher |
: Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 123 |
Release |
: 2018-04-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781527510296 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1527510298 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas Aquinas on Virtue and Human Flourishing by : Stephen Theron
Thomas Aquinas offers teleological systematisation of the habits needed for human flourishing. His metaphysical jurisprudence remodels ethics upon this, rather than on a moral precept. “Eternal law” governing the world determines “natural law”, reflected in human legislation (a variety of the “anthropic principle”). Finally, law, unwritten, is infused spirit as self-consciousness, “universal of universals”. Acquired virtues elicit this, become effusion, represented in religion as gifts or graces. But mind’s or spirit’s omnipresence, necessarily “closer to me than I am to myself”, supersedes the abstractions of heteronomy versus autonomy. The habitual well-being brought by prudence, justice, courage and temperance prompts this picture of gifts and graces. The “theological virtues”, faith (explicit or implicit) and hope fulfilled in love, “crown” our natural rationality, set toward as being the universal. “Become what you are”. Heteronomous law is thus “defused” at root by grounding it entirely upon immovable spiritual (mental) inclination towards universal fulfilment as naturally desired, reflection shows. Virtue, finally, is best assessed as a capacity for the individually beautiful yet habit-based action, Aristotle’s to kalon. Aquinas puts this picture as summed up in the beatitudes of the “Sermon on the Mount”.
Author |
: M. Christian Green |
Publisher |
: AFRICAN SUN MeDIA |
Total Pages |
: 460 |
Release |
: 2019-05-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781928314592 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1928314597 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Law, Religion and Human Flourishing in Africa by : M. Christian Green
A shared interest of law and religion is the advancement of human flourishing, yet there is no common understanding of what it means for humans to flourish and the means by which to attain a flourishing life. The concept of human flourishing is especially important for Africa, where community and national development compete with forces of conflict and scarce resources. In the broadest sense, the concept of human flourishing focuses our attention on having a comprehensively good or worthwhile life, but various religious and legal traditions suggest different norms for measuring the quality of life and designing the institutional structures that could best facilitate and preserve it.
Author |
: Erik Parens |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 2019 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190940362 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190940360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Flourishing in an Age of Gene Editing by : Erik Parens
The potential uses of CRISPR-Cas9 and other gene editing technologies are unprecedented in human history. Altering human DNA, however, raises enormously difficult questions. Some of these questions are about safety: Can these technologies be deployed without posing an unreasonable risk of physical harm to current and future generations? But gene editing technologies also raise other moral questions, which touch on deeply held, personal, cultural, and societal values. In the new essays collected here, an interdisciplinary group of scholars asks age-old questions about the nature and well-being of humans in the context of a revolutionary new biotechnology--one that has the potential to change the genetic make-up of both existing people and future generations.
Author |
: O. Carter Snead |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674987722 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674987721 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis What It Means to Be Human by : O. Carter Snead
American law assumes that individuals are autonomous, defined by their capacity to choose, and not obligated to each other. But our bodies make us vulnerable and dependent, and the law leaves the weakest on their own. O. Carter Snead argues for a paradigm that recognizes embodiment, enabling law and policy to provide for the care that people need.
Author |
: Francis J. Mootz |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 332 |
Release |
: 2009-03-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521883689 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521883687 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis On Philosophy in American Law by : Francis J. Mootz
Original essays by 38 leading legal theorists mark the 75th anniversary of Karl Llewellyn's essay 'On Philosophy in American Law.'
Author |
: Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 284 |
Release |
: 2013-02-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400760318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400760310 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Aristotle and The Philosophy of Law: Theory, Practice and Justice by : Liesbeth Huppes-Cluysenaer
The book presents a new focus on the legal philosophical texts of Aristotle, which offers a much richer frame for the understanding of practical thought, legal reasoning and political experience. It allows understanding how human beings interact in a complex world, and how extensive the complexity is which results from humans’ own power of self-construction and autonomy. The Aristotelian approach recognizes the limits of rationality and the inevitable and constitutive contingency in Law. All this offers a helpful instrument to understand the changes globalisation imposes to legal experience today. The contributions in this collection do not merely pay attention to private virtues, but focus primarily on public virtues. They deal with the fact that law is dependent on political power and that a person can never be sure about the facts of a case or about the right way to act. They explore the assumption that a detailed knowledge of Aristotle's epistemology is necessary, because of the direct connection between Enlightened reasoning and legal positivism. They pay attention to the concept of proportionality, which can be seen as a precondition to discuss liberalism.