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Author | : Ellen Frankel Paul |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780521615143 |
Download Natural Rights Liberalism from Locke to Nozick: Volume 22, Part 1 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"The essays in this book have also been published, without introduction and index, in the semiannual journal Social philosophy & policy, volume 22, number 1"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Author | : Brian Tierney |
Publisher | : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780802848543 |
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This series, originally published by Scholars Press and now available from Eerdmans, is intended to foster exploration of the religious dimensions of law, the legal dimensions of religion, and the interaction of legal and religious ideas, institutions, and methods. Written by leading scholars of law, political science, and related fields, these volumes will help meet the growing demand for literature in the burgeoning interdisciplinary study of law and religion.
Author | : S. Adam Seagrave |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2014-05-05 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 022612357X |
Download The Foundations of Natural Morality Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and contemporary human rights. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural law as its foundation or are the two ideas, as Leo Strauss argued, profoundly incompatible? With The Foundations of Natural Morality, S. Adam Seagrave addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of natural morality that compellingly unites the concepts of natural law and natural rights. Seagrave agrees with Strauss that the idea of natural rights is distinctly modern and does not derive from traditional natural law. Despite their historical distinctness, however, he argues that the two ideas are profoundly compatible and that the thought of John Locke and Thomas Aquinas provides the key to reconciling the two sides of this long-standing debate. In doing so, he lays out a coherent concept of natural morality that brings together thinkers from Plato and Aristotle to Hobbes and Locke, revealing the insights contained within these disparate accounts as well as their incompleteness when considered in isolation. Finally, he turns to an examination of contemporary issues, including health care, same-sex marriage, and the death penalty, showing how this new account of morality can open up a more fruitful debate.
Author | : Dan Edelstein |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226184404 |
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Natural right—the idea that there is a collection of laws and rights based not on custom or belief but that are “natural” in origin—is typically associated with liberal politics and freedom. In The Terror of Natural Right, Dan Edelstein argues that the revolutionaries used the natural right concept of the “enemy of the human race”—an individual who has transgressed the laws of nature and must be executed without judicial formalities—to authorize three-quarters of the deaths during the Terror. Edelstein further contends that the Jacobins shared a political philosophy that he calls “natural republicanism,” which assumed that the natural state of society was a republic and that natural right provided its only acceptable laws. Ultimately, he proves that what we call the Terror was in fact only one facet of the republican theory that prevailed from Louis’s trial until the fall of Robespierre. A highly original work of historical analysis, political theory, literary criticism, and intellectual history, The Terror of Natural Right challenges prevailing assumptions of the Terror to offer a new perspective on the Revolutionary period.
Author | : Leo Strauss |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2013-12-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 022622645X |
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In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics. On the centenary of Strauss's birth, and the fiftieth anniversary of the Walgreen Lectures which spawned the work, Natural Right and History remains as controversial and essential as ever. "Strauss . . . makes a significant contribution towards an understanding of the intellectual crisis in which we find ourselves . . . [and] brings to his task an admirable scholarship and a brilliant, incisive mind."—John H. Hallowell, American Political Science Review Leo Strauss (1899-1973) was the Robert Maynard Hutchins Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in Political Science at the University of Chicago.
Author | : Michael Zuckert |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2011-06-27 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1400821525 |
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In Natural Rights and the New Republicanism, Michael Zuckert proposes a new view of the political philosophy that lay behind the founding of the United States. In a book that will interest political scientists, historians, and philosophers, Zuckert looks at the Whig or opposition tradition as it developed in England. He argues that there were, in fact, three opposition traditions: Protestant, Grotian, and Lockean. Before the English Civil War the opposition was inspired by the effort to find the "one true Protestant politics--an effort that was seen to be a failure by the end of the Interregnum period. The Restoration saw the emergence of the Whigs, who sought a way to ground politics free from the sectarian theological-scriptural conflicts of the previous period. The Whigs were particularly influenced by the Dutch natural law philosopher Hugo Grotius. However, as Zuckert shows, by the mid-eighteenth century John Locke had replaced Grotius as the philosopher of the Whigs. Zuckert's analysis concludes with a penetrating examination of John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the English "Cato," who, he argues, brought together Lockean political philosophy and pre-existing Whig political science into a new and powerful synthesis. Although it has been misleadingly presented as a separate "classical republican" tradition in recent scholarly discussions, it is this "new republicanism" that served as the philosophical point of departure for the founders of the American republic.
Author | : Richard Tuck |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521285094 |
Download Natural Rights Theories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The origins of natural rights theories in medieval Europe and their development in the seventeenth century.
Author | : J. C. D. Clark |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0198816995 |
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J.C.D. Clark demythologizes the history of Thomas Paine, understanding the impact he has had on modern human rights, democracy, and internationalism.
Author | : Richard Cumberland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 824 |
Release | : 1727 |
Genre | : Christian ethics |
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Download A Treatise of the Laws of Nature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Brian Tierney |
Publisher | : CUA Press |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2014-02-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813225817 |
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Liberty and Law examines a previously underappreciated theme in legal history - the idea of permissive natural law. The idea is mentioned only peripherally, if at all, in modern histories of natural law. Yet it engaged the attention of jurists, philosophers, and theologians over a long period and formed an integral part of their teachings. This ensured that natural law was not conceived of as merely a set of commands and prohibitions that restricted human conduct, but also as affirming a realm of human freedom, understood as both freedom from subjection and freedom of choice. Freedom can be used in many ways, and throughout the whole period from 1100 to 1800 the idea of permissive natural law was deployed for various purposes in response to different problems that arose. It was frequently invoked to explain the origin of private property and the beginnings of civil government.