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The disfigured face : traditional natural law and its encounter with modernity / Luis Cortest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cortest, Luis.
- Series:
- Moral philosophy and moral theology.
- [Moral philosophy and moral theology]
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural law.
- Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
- Thomas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 136 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Luis Cortest shows how traditional natural law was transformed by thinkers like Locke and Kant into a doctrine compatible with early modern notions of nature and morality. One of the first great debates about moral philosophy took place in 16th-century Spain, as a dispute concerning the humanity of Native Americans.
- Contents:
- Thomistic ontology
- Ontological morality and human rights
- The war of the philosophers
- The modern way
- Pope Leo XIII and his legacy
- The survival of tradition.
- Notes:
- Series from jacket.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-3568-8
- 0-8232-4772-4
- OCLC:
- 801843293
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