Natural Law Modernized / / David Braybrooke.
Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Rousseau are classic modern philosophers, widely consulted in matters of ethics and political theory. In this provocative study David Braybrooke challenges received scholarly opinion by arguing that these canonical theorists took St Thomas Aquinas as their point of reference...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Toronto Studies in Philosophy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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Table of Contents:
- 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