Wolfe / Brust Natural Law Today

The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4985-7643-7
Verlag: Lexington Books
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 186 Seiten

Natural Law Today: The Present State of the Perennial Philosophy explains and defends various aspects of traditional natural law ethical theory, which is rooted in a broad understanding of human nature. Some of the issues touched upon include the relation of natural law to speculative reason and human ends (teleology), the relationship between natural law and natural theology, the so-called naturalistic fallacy (deriving “ought” from “is”), and the scope of natural knowledge of the precepts of the natural law, as well as possible limits on it. It also takes up certain historical and contemporary questions, such as the various stances of Protestant thinkers toward natural law, the place of natural law in contemporary U.S. legal thought, and the relationship between natural law and liberal political thought more generally. It brings together a number of the leading exponents of a more traditional or classical form of natural law thought, who claim to root their arguments within the broader philosophy of Thomas Aquinas more deeply than other major representatives of the natural law tradition today.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wolfe, Christopher

Brust, Steven

Weitere Mitwirkende

Arkes, Hadley

Brust, Steven

Budziszewski, J.

Charles, J. Daryl

Di Blasi, Fulvio

Long, Steven A.

McInerny, Ralph

Pakaluk, Michael

Wolfe, Christopher

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter One: God, Teleology, and the Natural Law Steven A. Long, Ave Maria University Chapter Two: Natural Inclinations in Aquinas’s Account of Natural Law Michael Pakaluk, The Catholic University of America Chapter Three: Natural Law and Natural Right(s): Conceptual and Terminological Clarifications Fulvio Di Blasi, Thomas International Center Chapter Four: “The Same as to Knowledge” J. Budziszewki, University of Texas at Austin Chapter Five: Aquinas’s Second Reason for the Necessity of Divine Law: Certainty of Knowledge with Respect to Particular and Contingent Moral Actions Steven J. Brust Chapter Six: Burying the Wrong Corpse: Second Thoughts on the Protestant Prejudice toward Natural Law Thinking J. Daryl Charles, the Acton Institute Chapter Seven: Natural Law and the Law Today Hadley Arkes, Amherst College Chapter Eight: Thomas Aquinas’s Concept of Natural Law: A Guide to Healthy Liberalism Christopher Wolfe, Marquette University

Über Autor(innen)

Steven Brust is assistant professor of political science at Eastern New Mexico University. Christopher Wolfe is professor of politics at the University of Dallas.