| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 322 pages) |
| Contents |
pt. 1. The concept of natural law -- Natural law as a limiting concept: a reading of Thomas Aquinas |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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, up to current discussions on the very possibility and practical relevance of natural law theory for the contemporary mind |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Natural law -- Congresses
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LAW -- Natural Law.
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Natural law
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
González, Ana Marta, 1969-
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| ISBN |
9780754692997 |
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075469299X |
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1317160592 |
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9781317160595 |
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1281332771 |
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9781281332776 |
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9786611332778 |
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6611332774 |
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