Natural law modernized / David Braybrooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Braybrooke, David.

Series:

Toronto studies in philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural law.

Ethics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 351 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2001]

Contents:

1 Did Medieval Natural Law Die Out? 3

2 Locke's Natural Law and St Thomas's: Secular in Content, Empirical in Foundation 29

3 Rousseau and St Thomas on the Common Good 54

Appendix 3.1 The Common Good Underappreciated in Current Political Science 80

4 Hobbes Allied with St Thomas: An Axiomatic System of Laws 90

Appendix 4.1 Minute Scholarship on Hobbes's First Law 114

Appendix 4.2 Hobbes's Axiomatic System Formally Expressed 117

Appendix 4.3 Complications in the Formalization of Hobbes on 'Seeking Peace' / Robert L. Causey 120

5 David Hume: Natural Law Theorist and Moral Realist 125

6 From Private Property in Hume and Locke to the Universality of Natural Laws 147

7 With Us Still: Natural Law Theory Illustrated Today in the Work of David Copp 178

8 Moral Education 196

9 Epilogue: The Lasting Strength of Natural Law Theory in Jurisprudence 221

Appendix Natural Law in Philosophical Traditions outside the Christian West 243

1. Ibn Khaldun Modernized / Michael McLendon 244

2. Natural Law in Classical Chinese Philosophy / Xiusheng Liu 258.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-346) and index.

ISBN:

0802035434 :

OCLC:

46628339