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1 Online-Ressource (327 p)
ISBN:
9789004247383
Serie:
Brill's Studies in Intellectual History Ser v.84
Inhalt:
The Disintegration of Natural Law Theory: Aquinas to Finnis -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1: Aquinas's variations on a divine theme -- 1. Conflicting interpretations -- 2. Exemplar of divine wisdom -- 3. The divine style applied -- 4. The role of nature -- 5. Fullness of being -- 6. Desired and desirable -- 7. Conclusion -- Chapter II: Aquinas's awareness of contingency -- 1. Synderesis: the angel's eye -- 2. Unquestionable parameters -- 3. The scope of certainty
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4. The movement of reason -- 5. Prudentia: undemonstrable wisdom -- 6. Deduction and determination -- 7. The separation of law and morals -- 8. Conclusion -- PART II -- Chapter III: Suárez's distinction between creation and legislation -- 1. A narrower concept of law -- 2. Eternal law -- 3. First fissures -- 4. The script of natural law -- 5. The silence of rational nature -- 6. The ineffectiveness of rational judgement -- 7. Suarez's middle-course -- 8. Human nature -- 9. Conclusion -- Chapter IV: The limits of Suárez's natural law theory
Inhalt:
1. The certainty of conclusions -- 2. Implied conditions -- 3. Human power -- 4. Liberty and property -- 5. Reason plus will -- 6. The ius gentium -- 7. Custom -- 8. Conclusion -- Chapter V: Grotius's humanisation of natural law -- 1. De Jure Praedae: the formal structure of law -- 2. The scepticism of the JP -- 3. The inadequacy of the JP -- 4. Human nature -- 5. Divine law -- 6. A comparison with Aquinas and Vázquez -- 7. The idealisation of human nature -- 8. Tensions in 'human nature' -- 9. Conclusion
Inhalt:
Chapter VI: Grotius's shift from natural law to natural rights -- 1. The limited scope of natural law -- 2. The crucial role of consent -- 3. The artificial state -- 4. Implied consent -- 5. International pacts -- 6. The right to wage war -- 7. Perfect rights -- 8. The superfluity of a legislator -- 9. Conclusion -- Chapter VII: Pufendorf's divine conductor -- 1. Weak and wicked -- 2. The orchestra of mankind -- 3. Law versus rights -- 4. Moral entities -- 5. Unbridled nature -- 6. The sovereign legislator -- 7. The two faces of man -- 8. Conclusion
Inhalt:
Chapter VIII: Pufendorfs reconstruction of rationality -- 1. The different roles of man -- 2. The state of nature -- 3. Reverse engineering -- 4. Agreements -- 5. The social contract -- 6. The lack of a ius gentium -- 7. Conclusion -- PART III -- Chapter IX: Finnis's natural law without nature -- 1. The ambitions of modem natural law theory -- 2. A moral methodology -- 3. Selection of the basic goods -- 4. The self-evidence of the basic goods -- 5. The incommensurability of the basic goods -- 6. The irrelevance of nature -- 7. Practical reason curtailed
Inhalt:
8. The hidden role of nature
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9789004109995
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Print version Westerman The Disintegration of Natural Law Theory : Aquinas to Finnis Leiden : BRILL,c1997 9789004109995
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Englisch
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