Natural law modernized / / David Braybrooke

• Autore: Braybrooke David
• Pubblicazione: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001; ©2001
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Disciplina: 340.112
• Soggetto topico: Natural law; Natural law - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Did Medieval Natural Law Die Out? -- 2. Locke's Natural Law and St Thomas's: Secular in Content, Empirical in Foundation -- 3. Rousseau and St Thomas on the Common Good -- 4. Hobbes Allied with St Thomas: An Axiomatic System of Laws -- 5. David Hume: Natural Law Theorist and Moral Realist -- 6. From Private Property in Hume and Locke to the Universality of Natural Laws -- 7. With Us Still: Natural Law Theory Illustrated Today in the Work of David Copp -- 8. Moral Education -- 9. Epilogue: The Lasting Strength of Natural Law Theory in Jurisprudence -- Appendix: Natural Law in Philosophical Traditions outside the Christian West -- Notes -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "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).
• Titolo autorizzato: Natural law modernized
• ISBN: 1-282-01451-X; 9786612014512; 1-4426-7758-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910817906303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Toronto studies in philosophy