Coons / Brennan By Nature Equal

The Anatomy of a Western Insight
Core Textbook
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2288-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten

Reihe: New Forum Books

John E. Coons is Robert Bridges Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. His previous books have focused on civil rights, the organization of education, and the rights of children. Coons has taught a variety of subjects with an emphasis on the mutual influence of law, philosophy, and the social sciences. Patrick M. Brennan is Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University, College of Law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Coons, John E.

Brennan, Patrick M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgment and Apology

Foreword

Introduction: In Search of a Descriptive Human Equality 3

Pt. I Human Equality: What does it Mean? 17

1 What Has Been Said? 22

2 The Host Property 39

3 Making the Host Property Uniform 66

Pt. II Could the Philosophers Believe in Human Equality? 91

4 Could the Enlightenment Believe? Individualism, Kant, and Equality 101

5 Nature, Natural Law, and Equality 123

Pt. III Could the Christians Believe in Human Equality? 145

6 The Framework for a Christian Obtensionalism 148

7 Repaving the Road to Hell: The Pelagian Issues 164

8 The Repaving Project, Part II: An Equal-Opportunity Creator 191

Pt. IV Good Persons and the Common Good 215

9 Harmonies of the Moral Spheres 218

10 Harvests of Equality 232

Notes 261

Index 349

Über Autor(innen)

John E. Coons is Robert Bridges Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1967. His previous books have focused on civil rights, the organization of education, and the rights of children. Coons has taught a variety of subjects with an emphasis on the mutual influence of law, philosophy, and the social sciences. Patrick M. Brennan is Associate Professor of Law at Arizona State University, College of Law.