Natural Law And The Natural Man
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Author |
: Pierre Manent |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 2020-02-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268107239 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0268107238 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Natural Law and Human Rights by : Pierre Manent
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 |
: James Carey |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 398 |
Release |
: 2019-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781532657740 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1532657749 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Natural Reason and Natural Law by : James Carey
Natural law, according to Thomas Aquinas, has its foundation in the evidence and operation of natural, human reason. Its primary precepts are self-evident. Awareness of these precepts does not presuppose knowledge of, or even belief in, the existence of God. The most interesting criticisms of Thomas Aquinas’s natural-law teaching in modern times have been advanced by the political philosopher Leo Strauss and his followers. The purpose of this book is to show that these criticisms are based on misunderstandings and that they are inconclusive at best. Thomas Aquinas’s natural-law teaching is fully rational. It is accessible to man as man.
Author |
: Kody W. Cooper |
Publisher |
: University of Notre Dame Pess |
Total Pages |
: 413 |
Release |
: 2018-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780268103040 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0268103046 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Thomas Hobbes and the Natural Law by : Kody W. Cooper
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 |
: 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 |
: Charles E. Rice |
Publisher |
: Ignatius Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 2011-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781681490014 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1681490013 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis 50 Questions on The Natural Law by : Charles E. Rice
Charles Rice, professor of the jurisprudence of St. Thomas Aquinas for the last twenty years at Notre Dame Law School, presents a very readable book on the natural law as seen through the teachings of Aquinas and their foundations in reason and Revelation. Reflecting on the most persistent questions asked by his students over the years, Rice shows how the natural law works and how it is rooted in the nature of the human person whose Creator provided this law as a sure and knowable guide for man to achieve his end of eternal happiness. This book presents the teachings of the Catholic Church in her role as arbiter of the applications of the natural law on issues involving the right to live, bioethics, the family and the economy. Charles Rice has produced a firmly grounded and accessible handbook which touches on the most important topics regarding natural law that will benefit readers of all backgrounds.
Author |
: Norman Doe |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2017-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107186446 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107186447 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christianity and Natural Law by : Norman Doe
This book compares historical and modern natural law ideas across global Christian traditions and explores their use in church law.
Author |
: Stuart Banner |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2021 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780197556498 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0197556493 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Decline of Natural Law by : Stuart Banner
The law of nature -- The common law -- The adoption of written constitutions -- The separation of law and religion -- The explosion in law publishing -- The two-sidedness of natural law -- The decline of natural law and custom --Substitutes for natural law -- Echoes of natural law.
Author |
: S. Adam Seagrave |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 185 |
Release |
: 2014-05-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226123578 |
ISBN-13 |
: 022612357X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (78 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Foundations of Natural Morality by : S. Adam Seagrave
Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and contemporary human rights. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural law as its foundation or are the two ideas, as Leo Strauss argued, profoundly incompatible? With The Foundations of Natural Morality, S. Adam Seagrave addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of natural morality that compellingly unites the concepts of natural law and natural rights. Seagrave agrees with Strauss that the idea of natural rights is distinctly modern and does not derive from traditional natural law. Despite their historical distinctness, however, he argues that the two ideas are profoundly compatible and that the thought of John Locke and Thomas Aquinas provides the key to reconciling the two sides of this long-standing debate. In doing so, he lays out a coherent concept of natural morality that brings together thinkers from Plato and Aristotle to Hobbes and Locke, revealing the insights contained within these disparate accounts as well as their incompleteness when considered in isolation. Finally, he turns to an examination of contemporary issues, including health care, same-sex marriage, and the death penalty, showing how this new account of morality can open up a more fruitful debate.
Author |
: Rod Dreher |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2017-03-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780735213319 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0735213313 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Benedict Option by : Rod Dreher
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Already the most discussed and most important religious book of the decade." —David Brooks In this controversial bestseller, Rod Dreher calls on American Christians to prepare for the coming Dark Age by embracing an ancient Christian way of life. From the inside, American churches have been hollowed out by the departure of young people and by an insipid pseudo–Christianity. From the outside, they are beset by challenges to religious liberty in a rapidly secularizing culture. Keeping Hillary Clinton out of the White House may have bought a brief reprieve from the state’s assault, but it will not stop the West’s slide into decadence and dissolution. Rod Dreher argues that the way forward is actually the way back—all the way to St. Benedict of Nursia. This sixth-century monk, horrified by the moral chaos following Rome’s fall, retreated to the forest and created a new way of life for Christians. He built enduring communities based on principles of order, hospitality, stability, and prayer. His spiritual centers of hope were strongholds of light throughout the Dark Ages, and saved not just Christianity but Western civilization. Today, a new form of barbarism reigns. Many believers are blind to it, and their churches are too weak to resist. Politics offers little help in this spiritual crisis. What is needed is the Benedict Option, a strategy that draws on the authority of Scripture and the wisdom of the ancient church. The goal: to embrace exile from mainstream culture and construct a resilient counterculture. The Benedict Option is both manifesto and rallying cry for Christians who, if they are not to be conquered, must learn how to fight on culture war battlefields like none the West has seen for fifteen hundred years. It's for all mere Christians—Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox—who can read the signs of the times. Neither false optimism nor fatalistic despair will do. Only faith, hope, and love, embodied in a renewed church, can sustain believers in the dark age that has overtaken us. These are the days for building strong arks for the long journey across a sea of night.
Author |
: Jeffrey B. Hammond |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 471 |
Release |
: 2021-06-24 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108835381 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108835384 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Christianity and the Laws of Conscience by : Jeffrey B. Hammond
This book explores the Christian theological, legal, constitutional, historical, and philosophical meanings of conscience for both scholarly and educated general audiences.