1st Edition

Edmund Burke and the Natural Law

By Peter Stanlis Copyright 2003
348 Pages
by Routledge

348 Pages
by Routledge

311 Pages
by Routledge

Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral, legal, and political thought presents a challenge not faced for almost two hundred years. On the surface, there would appear to be little room in the contemporary world for a widespread belief in natural law. The basic philosophies of the opposition--the rationalism of the philosophes , the utilitarianism of Bentham, the materialism... Read more
ONE The Philosophic Content and Historical Importance of Natural Law; TWO Natural Law and Revolutionary “Natural Rights”; THREE Burke and the Natural Law; FOUR The Law of Nations; FIVE Revolutionary “Natural Rights”; SIX Human Nature; SEVEN Church and State; EIGHT Burke and the Sovereignty of Natural Law

Biography

Peter Stanlis