Author : Jonathan Crowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 31,80 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108498302
Presents a systematic, contemporary defence of the natural law outlook in ethics, politics and jurisprudence.
Author : Christina Voigt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2013-11-21
Category : Law
ISBN : 1107513219
'Human laws must be reformulated to keep human activities in harmony with the unchanging and universal laws of nature.' This 1987 statement by the World Commission on Environment and Development has never been more relevant and urgent than it is today. Despite the many legal responses to various environmental problems, more greenhouse gases than ever before are being released into the atmosphere, biological diversity is rapidly declining and fish stocks in the oceans are dwindling. This book challenges the doctrinal construction of environmental law and presents an innovative legal approach to ecological sustainability: a rule of law for nature which guides and transcends ordinary written laws and extends fundamental principles of respect, integrity and legal security to the non-human world.
Author : Perez Zagorin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 35,31 MB
Release : 2009-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0691139806
Zagorin clears up numerous misconceptions about Hobbes and his relation to earlier natural law thinkers, in particular Hugo Grotius, and he reasserts the often overlooked role of the Hobbesian law of nature as a moral standard from which even sovereign power is not immune. Because Hobbes is commonly thought to be primarily a theorist of sovereignty, political absolutism, and unitary state power, the significance of his moral philosophy is often underestimated and widely assumed to depend entirely on individual self-interest. Zagorin reveals Hobbes's originality as a moral philosopher and his importance as a thinker who subverted and transformed the idea of natural law."--Pub. desc.
Author : Robert Greene
Publisher : Robert Greene
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 31,79 MB
Release :
Category : Self-Help
ISBN :
SUMMARY: This book is If you’ve ever wondered about human behavior, wonder no more. In The Laws of Human Nature, Greene takes a look at 18 laws that reveal who we are and why we do the things we do. Humans are complex beings, but Greene uses these laws to strip human nature down to its bare bones. Every law that he presents is supported by a real-life historical account, with an insightful twist to drive the point home. As you read the book, don’t be surprised if you get the feeling that everyone you know, including yourself, is described in the book! DISCLAIMER: This is an UNOFFICIAL summary and not the original book. It is designed to record all the key points of the original book.
Author : David Delaney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 31,8 MB
Release : 2003-10-13
Category : Law
ISBN : 1139437003
This interdisciplinary study explores the relationship between conceptions of nature and (largely American) legal thought and practice. It focuses on the politics and pragmatics of nature talk as expressed in both extra-legal disputes and their transformation and translation into forms of legal discourse (tort, property, contract, administrative law, criminal law and constitutional law). Delaney begins by considering the pragmatics of nature in connection with the very idea of law and the practice of American legal theorization. He then traces a set of specific political-legal disputes and arguments. The set consists of a series of contexts and cases organized around a conventional distinction between 'external' and 'internal nature': forces of nature, endangered species, animal experiments, bestiality, reproductive technologies, genetic screening, biological defenses in criminal cases, and involuntary medication of inmates. He demonstrates throughout that nearly any construal of 'nature' entails an interpretation of what it is to be (distinctively) human.
Author : D. M. Armstrong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1316558894
First published in 1985, D. M. Armstrong's original work on what laws of nature are has continued to be influential in the areas of metaphysics and philosophy of science. Presenting a definitive attack on the sceptical Humean view, that laws are no more than a regularity of coincidence between stances of properties, Armstrong establishes his own theory and defends it concisely and systematically against objections. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by Marc Lange, illuminating its continuing importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, this influential work is available for a new generation of readers.
Author : Michael Stolleis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 1317089766
This impressive volume is the first attempt to look at the intertwined histories of natural law and the laws of nature in early modern Europe. These notions became central to jurisprudence and natural philosophy in the seventeenth century; the debates that informed developments in those fields drew heavily on theology and moral philosophy, and vice versa. Historians of science, law, philosophy, and theology from Europe and North America here come together to address these central themes and to consider the question; was the emergence of natural law both in European jurisprudence and natural philosophy merely a coincidence, or did these disciplinary traditions develop within a common conceptual matrix, in which theological, philosophical, and political arguments converged to make the analogy between legal and natural orders compelling. This book will stimulate new debate in the areas of intellectual history and the history of philosophy, as well as the natural and human sciences in general.
Author : Simon P. Kennedy
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Comparative Political Theory and Intellectual History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,81 MB
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Natural law
ISBN : 9781474493994
Uncovers the relationship between early modern natural law ideas and secular conceptions of politics.
Author : Samuel Freiherr von Pufendorf
Publisher :
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 1716
Category : Ethics
ISBN :
Author : Francis Oakley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2005-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0826417655
Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 The existence and grounding of human or natural rights is a heavily contested issue today, not only in the West but in the debates raging between "fundamentalists" and "liberals" or "modernists in the Islamic world. So, too, are the revised versions of natural law espoused by thinkers such as John Finnis and Robert George. This book focuses on three bodies of theory that developed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries: (1) the foundational belief in the existence of a moral/juridical natural law, embodying universal norms of right and wrong and accessible to natural human reason; (2) the understanding of (scientific) uniformities of nature as divinely imposed laws, which rose to prominence in the seventeenth century; and (3), finally, the notion that individuals are bearers of inalienable natural or human rights. While seen today as distinct bodies of theory often locked in mutual conflict, they grew up inextricably intertwines. The book argues that they cannot be properly understood if taken each in isolation from the others.
