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Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights - Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ideas (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,523
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Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights - Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ideas (Hardcover): Francis Oakley

Natural Law, Laws of Nature, Natural Rights - Continuity and Discontinuity in the History of Ideas (Hardcover)

Francis Oakley

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Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006 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 intertwines. The book argues that they cannot be properly understood if taken each in isolation from the others.

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Imprint: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: December 2005
First published: September 2005
Authors: Francis Oakley
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-1765-7
Languages: English
Subtitles: English
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Christian theology > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Christian theology > General
Books > Christianity > Christian theology
LSN: 0-8264-1765-5
Barcode: 9780826417657

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