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Natural Law and Human Rights - Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason (Hardcover)
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Natural Law and Human Rights - Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason (Hardcover)
Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
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This first English translation of Pierre Manent’s profound and
strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de
l’homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western
political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the
prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de
Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady
displacement of the natural law by the modern conception of human
rights. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political
action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political
order that is fully compatible with liberty. Manent boldly
confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated
the classical and Christian notion of “liberty under law” and
in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to
human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate
obligations from a condition of what Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau
call the “state of nature,” where human beings are absolutely
free, with no obligations to others. In his view, our
ever-more-imperial affirmation of human rights needs to be
reintegrated into what he calls an “archic” understanding of
human and political existence, where law and obligation are
inherent in liberty and meaningful human action. Otherwise we are
bound to act thoughtlessly and in an increasingly arbitrary or
willful manner. Natural Law and Human Rights will engage students
and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion, and will
captivate sophisticated readers who are interested in the question
of how we might reconfigure our knowledge of, and talk with one
another about, politics.
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