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Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law - Natural Law as a Limiting Concept (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law - Natural Law as a Limiting Concept (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Resorting to natural law is one way of conveying the philosophical
conviction that moral norms are not merely conventional rules.
Accordingly, the notion of natural law has a clear metaphysical
dimension, since it involves the recognition that human beings do
not conceive themselves as sheer products of society and history.
And yet, if natural law is to be considered the fundamental law of
practical reason, it must show also some intrinsic relationship to
history and positive law. The essays in this book examine this
tension between the metaphysical and the practical and how the
philosophical elaboration of natural law presents this notion as a
"limiting-concept", between metaphysics and ethics, between the
mutable and the immutable; between is and ought, and, in connection
with the latter, even the tension between politics and eschatology
as a double horizon of ethics. This book, contributed to by
scholars from Europe and America, is a major contribution to the
renewed interest in natural law. It provides the reader with a
comprehensive overview of natural law, both from a historical and a
systematic point of view. It ranges from the mediaeval synthesis of
Aquinas through the early modern elaborations of natural law, up to
current discussions on the very possibility and practical relevance
of natural law theory for the contemporary mind.
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