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Contemporary perspectives on natural law : Natural law as a limiting concept

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Publication details: Hampshire ; Ashgate Publishing Company : 2008Description: 322p ixISBN:
  • 9780754660545
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  • 340.11 GON
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CONTENTS: Acknowledgements vii; Abbreviations ix; Introduction 1; Part One: The Concept of Natural Law; 1. Ana Marta González. Natural Law as a Limiting Concept. A Reading of Thomas Aquinas 11; Part Two: Historical Studies; 2. Russell Hittinger. Natural Law and the Human City 29; 3. Juan Cruz. The Formal Foundation of Natural Law in the Golden Age. Vázquez and Suárez’s case 43; 4. Knud Haakonssen. Natural Law without Metaphysics. A Protestant Tradition 67; 5. Jeffrey Edwards. Natural Law and Obligation in Hutcheson and Kant 87; 6. María Jesús Soto–Bruna. Spontaneity and the Law of Nature. Leibniz and the Precritical Kant 105; 7. Alejandro Vigo. Kant’s Conception of Natural Right 121; 8. Montserrat Herrero. The Right of Freedom Regarding Nature in G. W. F. Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 141; Part Three: Controversial Issues about Natural Law; 9. Alfredo Cruz. Natural Law and Practical Philosophy. The Presence of a Theological Concept in Moral Knowledge 161; 10. Alejandro Llano. First Principles and Practical Philosophy 175; 11. Christopher Martin. The Relativity of Goodness: a Prolegomenon to a Rapprochement between Virtue Ethics and Natural Law Theory 187; 12. Urbano Ferrer. Does the Naturalistic Fallacy Reach Natural Law? 201; 13. Carmelo Vigna. Human Universality and Natural Law 211; Part Four: Natural Law and Science; 14. Richard Hassing. Difficulties for Natural Law Based on Modern Conceptions of Nature 229; 15. John Deely. Evolution, Semiosis, and Ethics: Rethinking the Context of Natural Law 241; 16. David S. Oderberg. Teleology: Inorganic and Organic 259; 17. Robert Spaemann. The Unrelinquishability of Teleology 281; Index of names 297; Index of subjects 305.
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CONTENTS:
Acknowledgements vii;
Abbreviations ix;
Introduction 1;
Part One: The Concept of Natural Law;
1. Ana Marta González. Natural Law as a Limiting Concept. A Reading of Thomas Aquinas 11;
Part Two: Historical Studies;
2. Russell Hittinger. Natural Law and the Human City 29;
3. Juan Cruz. The Formal Foundation of Natural Law in the Golden Age. Vázquez and Suárez’s case 43;
4. Knud Haakonssen. Natural Law without Metaphysics. A Protestant Tradition 67;
5. Jeffrey Edwards. Natural Law and Obligation in Hutcheson and Kant 87;
6. María Jesús Soto–Bruna. Spontaneity and the Law of Nature. Leibniz and the Precritical Kant 105;
7. Alejandro Vigo. Kant’s Conception of Natural Right 121;
8. Montserrat Herrero. The Right of Freedom Regarding Nature in G. W. F. Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 141;
Part Three: Controversial Issues about Natural Law;
9. Alfredo Cruz. Natural Law and Practical Philosophy. The Presence of a Theological Concept in Moral Knowledge 161;
10. Alejandro Llano. First Principles and Practical Philosophy 175;
11. Christopher Martin. The Relativity of Goodness: a Prolegomenon to a Rapprochement between Virtue Ethics and Natural Law Theory 187;
12. Urbano Ferrer. Does the Naturalistic Fallacy Reach Natural Law? 201;
13. Carmelo Vigna. Human Universality and Natural Law 211;
Part Four: Natural Law and Science;
14. Richard Hassing. Difficulties for Natural Law Based on Modern Conceptions of Nature 229;
15. John Deely. Evolution, Semiosis, and Ethics: Rethinking the Context of Natural Law 241;
16. David S. Oderberg. Teleology: Inorganic and Organic 259;
17. Robert Spaemann. The Unrelinquishability of Teleology 281;
Index of names 297;
Index of subjects 305.