Owen Anderson

The Natural Moral Law

The Good After Modernity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book studies beliefs about the good and how it is known, and how such beliefs shape claims about the moral law.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 618g
• ISBN-13: 9781107008427
• ISBN-10: 1107008425
• Artikelnr.: 34751848

Autorenporträt

Owen Anderson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Arizona State University West. He is the author of Reason and Worldviews (2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The postmodern challenge: from modernity to postmodernity
2. Traditional natural law: differences in Aristotle and Aquinas
3. Patterns in historical thinking about the good
4. The challenge of modernity: religious wars and the need for universal law
5. The challenges of naturalism: legal realism or natural law
6. Objectivity without a metaphysical foundation
7. Contemporary natural law: practical rationality and legal opinions
8. Natural law as a theory with metaphysical baggage: postmodern law
9. Natural law as the moral law
10. Natural moral law in a postmodern world.