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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Confronting Moral Pluralism: Assessing Universal Applicability
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Engaging The Limits of Human Nature
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Beyond Rationalistic Philosophy: Assessing Universal Accessibility
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The Natural Law Tradition and a Culture in Crisis
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About this book
Accounts of natural law moral philosophy and theology sought principles and precepts for morality, law, and other forms of social authority, whose prescriptive force was not dependent for validity on human decision, social influence, past tradition, or cultural convention, but through natural reason itself.
This volume critically explores and assesses our contemporary culture wars in terms of: the possibility of natural law moral philosophy and theology to provide a unique, content-full, canonical morality; the character and nature of moral pluralism; the limits of justifiable national and international policy seeking to produce and preserve human happiness, social justice, and the common good; the ways in which morality, moral epistemology, and social political reform must be set within the broader context of an appropriately philosophically and theologically anchored anthropology. This work will be of interest to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists, ethicists and political scientists.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics
Editors: Mark J. Cherry
Series Title: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-2224-7
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2223-4Published: 13 September 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6617-6Published: 15 December 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2224-1Published: 11 April 2006
Series ISSN: 0928-9518
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1753
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 202
Topics: Philosophy, general, Religious Studies, general, Ethics, Philosophy of Law