Natural Law and Modern Moral Philosophy: Volume 18, Social Philosophy and Policy, Part 1Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller (Jr.), Jeffrey Paul Cambridge University Press, 2001 M01 29 - 257 pages The essays in this volume--written by academic lawyers as well as legal and moral philosophers--address some of the most intriguing questions raised by natural law theory and its implications for law, morality, and public policy. Some of the essays explore the implications that natural law theory has for jurisprudence, asking what natural law suggests about the use of legal devices such as constitutions and precedents. Other essays examine the connections between natural law and natural rights. |
Contents
Thomistic Natural Law as Darwinian Natural Right | 1 |
Ethical Individualism Natural Law and the Primacy of Natural Rights | 34 |
Natural Law Consent and Political Obligation | 70 |
The Natural Basis of Political Obligation | 93 |
Law as Justice | 115 |
The Laws of Reason and the Surprise of the Natural Law | 146 |
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