Overview
- Revisits key moments in intellectual and social history, with an eye to extracting valuable lessons for ideological conflicts in the present
- A timely work that enables moral and legal dialogue between traditions holding apparently clashing world-views such as at present
- Highlights why Natural Law repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis
- Has close connections with current discussions on cultural relativism, bioethics, etc ?
Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 22)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Alasdair MacIntyre and Natural Law
- Anthropology and Legal Philosophy
- Aquinas’ Natural Law
- Aristotle on Practical Rules
- Cicero and Natural Law
- Dworkin and the Natural Law Tradition
- God and Natural Law
- Man’s Rational Nature in Aquinas’ Natural Law Theory
- Natural Law Democracy
- Natural Law Theories in 20th Century International Law
- Natural Law Tradition
- Natural Law and the Phenomenological Given
- New Natural Law Theory
- Perspectivism and Natural Law
- Plato's and Aristotle's Political Philosophy
- Reflections on Genesis 22
- Stoic natural law
About this book
The notion of “natural law” has repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis. Stoic natural law, for example, emerged precisely when the Ancient World lost the Greek polis, which had been the point of reference for Plato's and Aristotle's political philosophy. In key moments such as this, natural law has enabled moral and legal dialogue between peoples and traditions holding apparently clashing world-views. This volume revisits some of these key moments in intellectual and social history, partly with an eye to extracting valuable lessons for ideological conflicts in the present and perhaps near future. The contributions to this volume discuss both historical and contemporary schools of natural law. Topics on historical schools of natural law include: how Aristotelian theory of rules paved the way for the birth of the idea of "natural law"; the idea's first mature account in Cicero's work; the tension between two rival meanings of “man’s rational nature” in Aquinas’ natural law theory; and the scope of Kant’s allusions to “natural law”. Topics on contemporary natural law schools include: John Finnis's and Germain Grisez's “new natural law theory”; natural law theories in a "broader" sense, such as Adolf Reinach’s legal phenomenology; Ortega y Gasset’s and Scheler’s “ethical perspectivism”; the natural law response to Kelsen’s conflation of democracy and moral relativism; natural law's role in 20th century international law doctrine; Ronald Dworkin’s understanding of law as “a branch of political morality”; and Alasdair Macintyre’s "virtue"-based approach to natural law.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Threads of Natural Law
Book Subtitle: Unravelling a Philosophical Tradition
Editors: Francisco José Contreras
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-5656-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-5655-7Published: 12 December 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-017-8047-6Published: 29 January 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-5656-4Published: 13 December 2012
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 242
Topics: Philosophy of Law, Fundamentals of Law, Anthropology, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History