Natural Law

In his provocative and highly readable study, Human Rights: Fact or Fancy?, Henry B. Veatch finds the basis for human rights in natural law. He builds his argument step by step, carefully laying the foundation for his central assertion that our basic...

Same-sex partnerships. Pregnancy through in vitro fertilization. Ending one's own life in dignity. All are deemed inherently wrong by the standards of natural law ethics, but for many people they represent legitimate life choices that are morally right...

"Eusebism" is a new moral philosophy based on respect, whose purpose is to change paradigms and perspectives that prevent human beings from being free and aware. Eusebism's unifying element is absolute and unconditional respect for everything...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785272059Author Charles P. NemethFormat HardbackPage Count 236Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973190Author Gershom CarmichaelFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 812g

From Human Dignity to Natural Law shows how the whole of the natural law, as understood in the Aristotelian Thomistic tradition, is contained implicitly in human dignity. Human dignity means existing for one's own good (the common good as well as one's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780268014803Author Michael P. ZuckertFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint University of Notre Dame PressPublisher University of Notre Dame Press

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In Debating Medieval Natural Law: A Survey, Riccardo Saccenti examines and evaluates the major lines of interpretation of the medieval concepts of natural rights and natural law within the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and explains how the...

A recurring issue in American political life is the role that religion plays in public law making. While many believe that religious voices have been unjustly suppressed in public life and should be accorded a more prominent role in the making of public...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865973206Author Gershom CarmichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 405Imprint Liberty Fund IncPublisher Liberty Fund IncWeight(grams) 686g

Every successive generation finds fresh reasons for the study of natural law. Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive moral pessimism in the Western cultural context and wider contemporary geopolitical challenges. Those...

Americans have been forced from their homes. Their jobs have been outsourced, their neighborhoods torn down to make room for freeways, their churches shuttered or taken over by social justice warriors, and their very families eviscerated by government...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161527425Author Gregor EtzelmullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 395Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 608g

Legal Naturalism advances a clear and convincing case that Marx's theory of law is a form of natural law jurisprudence. It explicates both Marx's writings and the idea of natural law, and makes a forceful contribution to current debates on the...

Uncovers the relationship between early modern natural law ideas and secular conceptions of politics Provides a fresh interpretation of the historical relationship between early modern developments in natural law theories and important features of...

Reflection on natural law reaches a highpoint during the Middle Ages. Not only do Christian thinkers work out the first systematic accounts of natural law and articulate the framework for subsequent reflection, the Jewish and Islamic traditions also...

This book proposes a rather novel legal-philosophical approach to understanding the intersection between law and morality. It does so by analyzing the conditions for the existence of a juridical domain of natural law from the perspective of the tradition...

In The Natural Rights Republic, renowned political theorist Michael P. Zuckert examines the natural rights philosophy as expressed in sources like the Declaration of Independence and aims to counter contemporary confusion by offering an insightful study...

Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world. Is there any connection linking some of the maladies of modern life-"cancel culture,"...

This edited volume examines the ways in which theological considerations have figured in natural law theorizing, from Plato to Spinoza. Theological considerations have long had a pronounced role in Catholic natural law theories, but have not been...

An account of a fundamental change in American legal thought, from a conception of law as something found in nature to one in which law is entirely a human creation. Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the American...

Law relies on a conception of human agency, the idea that humans are capable of making their own choices and are morally responsible for the consequences. But what if that is not the case? Over the past half century, the story of the law has been one of...