UID:
edocfu_9959233740902883
Format:
1 online resource (366 p.)
Edition:
2nd ed.
ISBN:
1-282-01451-X
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9786612014512
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1-4426-7758-9
Series Statement:
Toronto Studies in Philosophy
Content:
"Braybrooke challenges received scholarly opinion by arguing that canonical theorists Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Rousseau took St Thomas Aquinas as their point of reference, reinforcing rather than departing from his natural law theory."--JSTOR website (viewed March 8, 2017).
Note:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Preface --
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1. Did Medieval Natural Law Die Out? --
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2. Locke's Natural Law and St Thomas's: Secular in Content, Empirical in Foundation --
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3. Rousseau and St Thomas on the Common Good --
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4. Hobbes Allied with St Thomas: An Axiomatic System of Laws --
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5. David Hume: Natural Law Theorist and Moral Realist --
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6. From Private Property in Hume and Locke to the Universality of Natural Laws --
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7. With Us Still: Natural Law Theory Illustrated Today in the Work of David Copp --
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8. Moral Education --
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9. Epilogue: The Lasting Strength of Natural Law Theory in Jurisprudence --
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Appendix: Natural Law in Philosophical Traditions outside the Christian West --
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Notes --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-8644-6
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-8020-3543-4
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.3138/9781442677586
