Natural Law Today (eBook)

The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy

Steven Brust, Christopher Wolfe (Herausgeber)

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2018
186 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-7643-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Natural Law Today gives a strong voice to classical natural law theory as the best answers to the fundamental questions of ethics and as the best framework for political and social life. It explains various aspects of that theory and defends it against common misperceptions and criticisms.

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Natural Law Today: The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy explains and defends various aspects of traditional natural law ethical theory, which is rooted in a broad understanding of human nature. Some of the issues touched upon include the relation of natural law to speculative reason and human ends (teleology), the relationship between natural law and natural theology, the so-called naturalistic fallacy (deriving "e;ought"e; from "e;is"e;), and the scope of natural knowledge of the precepts of the natural law, as well as possible limits on it. It also takes up certain historical and contemporary questions, such as the various stances of Protestant thinkers toward natural law, the place of natural law in contemporary U.S. legal thought, and the relationship between natural law and liberal political thought more generally. It brings together a number of the leading exponents of a more traditional or classical form of natural law thought, who claim to root their arguments within the broader philosophy of Thomas Aquinas more deeply than other major representatives of the natural law tradition today.

Autor

Steven Brust is assistant professor of political science at Eastern New Mexico University. Christopher Wolfe is professor of politics at the University of Dallas.

Inhalt

Chapter One: God, Teleology, and the Natural LawSteven A. Long, Ave Maria UniversityChapter Two: Natural Inclinations in Aquinas’s Account of Natural LawMichael Pakaluk, The Catholic University of AmericaChapter Three: Natural Law and Natural Right(s): Conceptual and Terminological ClarificationsFulvio Di Blasi, Thomas International CenterChapter Four: “The Same as to Knowledge”J. Budziszewki, University of Texas at AustinChapter Five: Aquinas’s Second Reason for the Necessity of Divine Law: Certainty of Knowledge with Respect to Particular and Contingent Moral ActionsSteven J. BrustChapter Six: Burying the Wrong Corpse: Second Thoughts on the Protestant Prejudice toward Natural Law ThinkingJ. Daryl Charles, the Acton InstituteChapter Seven: Natural Law and the Law TodayHadley Arkes, Amherst CollegeChapter Eight: Thomas Aquinas’s Concept of Natural Law: A Guide to Healthy LiberalismChristopher Wolfe, Marquette University

Produkt-Details

• Co-Autor: Hadley Arkes, Fulvio Di Blasi, Steven Brust, J. Budziszewski, J. Daryl Charles, Steven A. Long, Michael Pakaluk, University of Notre Dame Ralph McInerny, Christopher Wolfe
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: ethical frameworks • foundations of morality • God and Natural Law • human ends • naturalistic fallacy • Natural Law • Natural Theology • new natural law theory • perennial philosophy • Practical reason • Teleology • Thomistic ethics
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-7643-5 / 1498576435
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-7643-7 / 9781498576437