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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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| Format: | Electronic Conference Proceeding eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 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.