Narrative Nature And The Natural Law
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Author |
: C. Alford |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 183 |
Release |
: 2010-05-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230106727 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230106722 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative, Nature, and the Natural Law by : C. Alford
Beginning with Saint Thomas Aquinas and ending with the latest developments in international human rights, 'Narrative, Nature, and the Natural Law: From Aquinas to International Human Rights,' brings a fairly traditional interpretation of the natural law to some rather untraditional problems and areas, including evolutionary natural law.
Author |
: Craig A. Boyd |
Publisher |
: Baker Books |
Total Pages |
: 261 |
Release |
: 2007-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781585585090 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1585585092 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Shared Morality by : Craig A. Boyd
Morality based on natural law has a long tradition, and has proven to be quite resilient in the face of numerous attacks and challenges over the years. Those challenges are no less serious today, which leads one to ask if natural law is still a viable foundation for ethics. Craig Boyd provides a contemporary defense of natural law theory against modern challenges from the arenas of science, religion, culture, and philosophy. In his analysis, he defends many of the classical elements of natural law, but also takes into account the contributions of scientific discoveries about human nature. He concludes that natural law is a necessary but not sufficient basis for ethics that must be accompanied by a theory of virtue.
Author |
: Andrew Forsyth |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2019-04-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108476973 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110847697X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Common Law and Natural Law in America by : Andrew Forsyth
Presents an ambitious narrative and fresh re-assessment of common law and natural law's varied interactions in America, 1630 to 1930.
Author |
: Pamela M. Hall |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015033994164 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narrative and the Natural Law by : Pamela M. Hall
With Narrative and the Natural Law Pamela Hall brings Thomistic ethics into conversation with ongoing debates in contemporary moral philosophy, especially virtue theory and moral psychology, and with current trends in narrative theory and the philosophy of history. Pamela M. Hall's study offers a solid, challenging alternative to rigid, legalistic interpretations of the substantial discussion of law in Aquinas's Summa theologiae and defends Aquinas's ethics from charges of excessive legalism. Hall argues that Aquinas's characterization of the content and relationship of natural, human and divine law indicates that his understanding of the quest for the human good is practical, communal, and historical. Hall maintains that natural law, the ongoing inquiry into what is the human good, is narrative both in terms of its internal structure and its being informed by the specific story of Scripture. According to Aquinas the discovery of natural law is enacted historically and progressively within communities and by individuals through a process of practical reasoning. Hall then goes on to show how natural law requires articulation by human law, and how both are connected to divine law (salvation history) as Aquinas understands it. Aquinas represents inquiry into the human good as a kind of historical narrative or story with stages or "chapters"; thus knowledge of natural law requires time and experience, as well as sustained reflection by individuals and by whole communities. Such learning of natural law implies the operation of prudence and the assistance of the moral virtues.
Author |
: Lloyd L. Weinreb |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0674604261 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780674604261 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Natural Law and Justice by : Lloyd L. Weinreb
"Human beings are a part of nature and apart from it." The argument of Natural Law and Justice is that the philosophy of natural law and contemporary theories about the nature of justice are both efforts to make sense of the fundamental paradox of human experience: individual freedom and responsibility in a causally determined universe. Professor Weinreb restores the original understanding of natural law as a philosophy about the place of humankind in nature. He traces the natural law tradition from its origins in Greek speculation through its classic Christian statement by Thomas Aquinas. He goes on to show how the social contract theorists adapted the idea of natural law to provide for political obligation in civil society and how the idea was transformed in Kant's account of human freedom. He brings the historical narrative down to the present with a discussion of the contemporary debate between natural law and legal positivism, including particularly the natural law theories of Finnis, Richards, and Dworkin. Professor Weinreb then adopts the approach of modern political philosophy to develop the idea of justice as a union of the distinct ideas of desert and entitlement. He shows liberty and equality to be the political analogues of desert and entitlement and both pairs to be the normative equivalents of freedom and cause. In this part of the book, Weinreb considers the theories of justice of Rawls and Nozick as well as the communitarian theory of Maclntyre and Sandel. The conclusion brings the debates about natural law and justice together, as parallel efforts to understand the human condition. This original contribution to legal philosophy will be especially appreciated by scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of political philosophy, legal philosophy, and the law generally.
Author |
: C. Fred Alford |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 153 |
Release |
: 2006-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139455206 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139455206 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (06 Downloads) |
Synopsis Psychology and the Natural Law of Reparation by : C. Fred Alford
Are there universal values of right and wrong, good and bad, shared by virtually every human? The tradition of natural law argues that there is. Drawing on the work of psychoanalyst Melanie Klein, whose analyses have touched upon issues related to original sin, trespass, guilt, and salvation through reparation, in this 2006 book C. Fred Alford adds an extra dimension to this argument: we know natural law to be true because we have hated before we have loved and have wished to destroy before we have wanted to create. Natural law is built upon the desire to make reparation for the goodness we have destroyed, or have longed to destroy. Through reparation, we earn salvation from the most hateful part of ourselves, that which would destroy what we know to be good.
Author |
: Lloyd L. Weinreb |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 340 |
Release |
: 1987 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:49015001325852 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Natural Law and Justice by : Lloyd L. Weinreb
"Human beings are a part of nature and apart from it." The argument of Natural Law and Justice is that the philosophy of natural law and contemporary theories about the nature of justice are both efforts to make sense of the fundamental paradox of human experience: individual freedom and responsibility in a causally determined universe. Professor Weinreb restores the original understanding of natural law as a philosophy about the place of humankind in nature. He traces the natural law tradition from its origins in Greek speculation through its classic Christian statement by Thomas Aquinas. He goes on to show how the social contract theorists adapted the idea of natural law to provide for political obligation in civil society and how the idea was transformed in Kant's account of human freedom. He brings the historical narrative down to the present with a discussion of the contemporary debate between natural law and legal positivism, including particularly the natural law theories of Finnis, Richards, and Dworkin. Professor Weinreb then adopts the approach of modern political philosophy to develop the idea of justice as a union of the distinct ideas of desert and entitlement. He shows liberty and equality to be the political analogues of desert and entitlement and both pairs to be the normative equivalents of freedom and cause. In this part of the book, Weinreb considers the theories of justice of Rawls and Nozick as well as the communitarian theory of Maclntyre and Sandel. The conclusion brings the debates about natural law and justice together, as parallel efforts to understand the human condition. This original contribution to legal philosophy will be especially appreciated by scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of political philosophy, legal philosophy, and the law generally.
Author |
: Simon P. Kennedy |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2023-11-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1474493998 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781474493994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reforming the Law of Nature by : Simon P. Kennedy
Uncovers the relationship between early modern natural law ideas and secular conceptions of politics.
Author |
: Kenneth R. Westphal |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 286 |
Release |
: 2016-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191064128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191064122 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law by : Kenneth R. Westphal
Kenneth R. Westphal presents an original interpretation of Hume's and Kant's moral philosophies, the differences between which are prominent in current philosophical accounts. Westphal argues that focussing on these differences, however, occludes a decisive, shared achievement: a distinctive constructivist method to identify basic moral principles and to justify their strict objectivity, without invoking moral realism nor moral anti-realism or irrealism. Their constructivism is based on Hume's key insight that 'though the laws of justice are artificial, they are not arbitrary'. Arbitrariness in basic moral principles is avoided by starting with fundamental problems of social coördination which concern outward behaviour and physiological needs; basic principles of justice are artificial because solving those problems does not require appeal to moral realism (nor to moral anti-realism). Instead, moral cognitivism is preserved by identifying sufficient justifying reasons, which can be addressed to all parties, for the minimum sufficient legitimate principles and institutions required to provide and protect basic forms of social coördination (including verbal behaviour). Hume first develops this kind of constructivism for basic property rights and for government. Kant greatly refines Hume's construction of justice within his 'metaphysical principles of justice', whilst preserving the core model of Hume's innovative constructivism. Hume's and Kant's constructivism avoids the conventionalist and relativist tendencies latent if not explicit in contemporary forms of moral constructivism.
Author |
: Francis Oakley |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 144 |
Release |
: 2005-09-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781441133311 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1441133313 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights by : Francis Oakley
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.