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Contemporary perspectives on natural law : natural law as a limiting concept /

This book is a major contribution to the renewed interest in natural law. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of natural law, both from a historical and a systematic point of view. It ranges from the mediaeval synthesis of Aquinas through the early modern elaborations of natural law...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Conference on Natural Law University of Navarra
Otros Autores: González, Ana Marta, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico Congresos, conferencias eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, ©2008.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • pt. 1. The concept of natural law
  • Natural law as a limiting concept: a reading of Thomas Aquinas.
  • pt. 2. Historical studies
  • Natural law and the human city
  • The formal fundament of natural law in the Golden Age: the case of V́ázquez and Suárez
  • Natural law without metaphysics: a protestant tradition
  • Natural law and obligation in Hutcheson and Kant
  • Spontaneity and the law of nature: Leibniz and pre-critical Kant
  • Kant's conception of natural right
  • The right of freedom regarding nature in Hegel's Philosophy of Right.
  • pt. 3. Controversial issues about natural law
  • Natural law and practical philosophy: the presence of a theological concept in moral knowledge
  • First principles and practical philosophy
  • The relativity of goodness: a prolegomenon to a rapprochement between virtue ethics and natural law theory
  • Does the naturalistic fallacy reach natural law?
  • Human universality and natural law.
  • pt. 4. Natural law and science
  • Difficulties for natural law based on modern conceptions of nature
  • Evolution, semiosis and ethics: rethinking the context of natural law
  • Teleology: inorganic and organic
  • The unrelinquishability of teleology.