Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law
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Ad Opposita
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Alejandro Llano
Alfredo Cruz Prados
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Benevolent Desire
Carmelo Vigna
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Christopher Martin
Classical Natural Law Theory
David S. Oderberg
Early Modern Philosophy
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eternal
Eternal Law
Extrinsic Principle
Grundlegung Zur Metaphysik Der Sitten
Jeffrey Edwards
John Deely
Juan Cruz Cruz
Knud Haakonssen
Kritik Der Praktischen Vernunft
legal philosophy history
Lex Insita
Maria Jesus Soto-Bruna
metaphysical ethics
Metaphysik Der Sitten
Modern Natural Law
Modern Natural Law Theorists
Montserrat Herrero
moral philosophy
Natural Law
Natural Law Theory
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
Organic Teleology
philosophical foundations of moral law
Positive Divine Law
practical reason theory
Protestant Natural Law
Richard F. Hassing
Robert Spaemann
Rock Cycle
Russell Hittinger
Samuel Von Pufendorf
Semiotic Animal
Teleological Talk
teleology in ethics
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Universal Teleology
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Vice Versa
virtue ethics integration
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- ISBN 9781138251458
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 06 Mar 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Resorting to natural law is one way of conveying the philosophical conviction that moral norms are not merely conventional rules. Accordingly, the notion of natural law has a clear metaphysical dimension, since it involves the recognition that human beings do not conceive themselves as sheer products of society and history. And yet, if natural law is to be considered the fundamental law of practical reason, it must show also some intrinsic relationship to history and positive law. The essays in this book examine this tension between the metaphysical and the practical and how the philosophical elaboration of natural law presents this notion as a "limiting-concept", between metaphysics and ethics, between the mutable and the immutable; between is and ought, and, in connection with the latter, even the tension between politics and eschatology as a double horizon of ethics. This book, contributed to by scholars from Europe and America, 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, up to current discussions on the very possibility and practical relevance of natural law theory for the contemporary mind.
Ana Marta González is Vice-Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Navarra, Spain.
