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Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights

by Francis Oakley

  • Hardback
  • 144 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

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The existence and grounding of human or natural rights is a heavily contested issue today, not only in the West but in the debates raging between 'fundamentalists' and 'liberals' or 'modernists' in the Islamic world. So, too, are the revised versions of natural law espoused by thinkers such as John Finnis and Robert George. This book focuses on three bodies of theory that developed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries: (1) the foundational belief in the existence of a moral/juridical natural law, embodying universal norms of right and wrong and accessible to natural human reason; (2) the understanding of (scientific) uniformities of nature as divinely imposed laws, which rose to prominence in the seventeenth century; and (3), finally, the notion that individuals are bearers of inalienable natural or human rights. While seen today as distinct bodies of theory often locked in mutual conflict, they grew up inextricably intertwined. The book argues that they cannot be properly understood if taken each in isolation from the others.
Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights and The Conciliarist Tradition
The Conciliarist TraditionNatural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights

  • Author

    Francis Oakley

  • Book Format

    hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    December 2005

  • Weight

    314g

  • Page Count

    144

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826417657

  • ISBN-10

    0826417655

  • Eden Code

    119121

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