1st Edition
Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law Natural Law as a Limiting Concept
By Ana Marta González
Copyright 2008
334 Pages
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Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
334 Pages
by
Routledge
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Resorting to natural law is one way of conveying the philosophical conviction that moral norms are not merely conventional rules. Accordingly, the notion of natural law has a clear metaphysical dimension, since it involves the recognition that human beings do not conceive themselves as sheer products of society and history. And yet, if natural law is to be considered the fundamental law of... Read more
Introduction; Part 1 The Concept of Natural Law; Chapter 1 Natural Law as a Limiting Concept: A Reading of Thomas Aquinas, Ana Marta González; Part 2 Historical Studies; Chapter 2 Natural Law and the Human City, Russell Hittinger; Chapter 3 The Formal Fundament of Natural Law in the Golden Age: The case of Vázquez and Suárez, Juan Cruz Cruz; Chapter 4 Natural Law Without Metaphysics: A Protestant Tradition, Knud Haakonssen; Chapter 5 Natural Law and Obligation in Hutcheson and Kant, Jeffrey Edwards; Chapter 6 Spontaneity and the Law of Nature: Leibniz and Pre-critical Kant, María Jesús Soto-Bruna; Chapter 7 Kant’s Conception of Natural Right, Alejandro G. Vigo; Chapter 8 The Right of Freedom regarding Nature in Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, Montserrat Herrero; Part 3 Controversial Issues about Natural Law; Chapter 9 Natural Law and Practical Philosophy: The Presence of a Theological Concept in Moral Knowledge, Alfredo Cruz Prados; Chapter 10 First Principles and Practical Philosophy, Alejandro Llano; Chapter 11 The Relativity of Goodness: A Prolegomenon to a Rapprochement between Virtue Ethics and Natural Law Theory, Christopher Martin; Chapter 12 Does the Naturalistic Fallacy Reach Natural Law?, Urbano Ferrer; Chapter 13 Human Universality and Natural Law, Carmelo Vigna; Part 4 Natural Law and Science; Chapter 14 Difficulties on Modern for Natural Law Based Conceptions of Nature, Richard F. Hassing; Chapter 15 Evolution, Semiosis and Ethics: Rethinking the Context of Natural Law, John Deely; Chapter 16 Teleology: Inorganic and Organic, David S. Oderberg; Chapter 17 The Unrelinquishability of Teleology, Robert Spaemann;
Biography
Ana Marta González is Vice-Chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Navarra, Spain.
