Natural Law category: 200 books
Natural Law and Religious Freedom
The Role of Moral First Things in Grounding and Protecting the First Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2017
Every successive generation finds fresh reasons for the study of natural law. Current interest in the natural law may well be due to a pervasive moral pessimism in the Western cultural context and wider contemporary geopolitical challenges. Those geopolitical challenges result from two significant...
Divine Covenants and Moral Order
A Biblical Theology of Natural Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This book addresses the old question of natural law in its contemporary context. David VanDrunen draws on both his Reformed theological heritage and the broader Christian natural law tradition to develop a constructive theology of natural law through a thorough study of Scripture.
The biblical...
Debating Medieval Natural Law
A Survey
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
In Debating Medieval Natural Law: A Survey, Riccardo Saccenti examines and evaluates the major lines of interpretation of the medieval concepts of natural rights and natural law within the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and explains how the major historiographical interpretations of ius...
The Architecture of Law
Rebuilding Law in the Classical Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
What is law? How should law be made? Using St. Thomas Aquinas’s analogy of God as an architect, Brian McCall argues that classical natural law jurisprudence provides an answer to these questions far superior to those provided by legal positivism or the “new” natural law theories. The Architecture...
Legal Naturalism
A Marxist Theory of Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
Legal Naturalism advances a clear and convincing case that Marx's theory of law is a form of natural law jurisprudence. It explicates both Marx's writings and the idea of natural law, and makes a forceful contribution to current debates on the foundations of law.
Olufemi Taiwo argues that embedded...
by Johannes Althusius
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2013
The Dicaeologicae was an immense Latin work that sought to construct a single comprehensive juridical system by collating the Decalogue, Jewish law, Roman law, and various streams of European customary law. The translated sections comprising On Law and Power address such topics as common law, natural...
by Christian Wolff
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Christian Wolff’s The Law of Nations is a cornerstone of eighteenth-century thought. A treatise on the philosophy of human action, on the foundations of political communities, and on international law, it influenced philosophers throughout the eighteenth-century Enlightenment world. According to...
by Girolamo Zanchi
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
On the Law in General is a single chapter of Girolamo Zanchi's Tractatus de Redemptione, part of what has been called an unfinished Protestant "summa" akin to that of Thomas Aquinas. In this selection Zanchi examines the relationship of the natural law to human law, church tradition, custom,...
A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas
Nature and the Natural Law
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2017
In A Comparative Analysis of Cicero and Aquinas, Charles P. Nemeth investigates how, despite their differences, these two figures may be the most compatible brothers in ideas ever conceived in the theory of natural law. Looking to find common threads that run between the philosophies of these two...
Burke’s Politics
A Study in Whig Orthodoxy
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
Edmund Burke claimed to be a practical politician, rather than a theorist. Nevertheless, says the author, Burke held consistent political principles which form a coherent political theory. By examining concepts such as natural laws, natural society, civil society, and history in Burke’s speeches...
Treatise on Law, The
(Summa Theologiae, I-II; qq. 90-97)
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1993
In this translation of Saint Thomas Aquinas’s The Treatise on Law, R. J. Henle, S.J., a well-known authority on philosophy and jurisprudence, fluently and accurately presents the Latin and English translation of this important work. Henle provides the necessary background for an informed reading...
Wisdom Secrets
Positive Motivational Quotes
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2013
A collection of positive motivational quotes about life money, hope, knowledge, focus, honour, love, life, peace, experience, order, genius, habit, mind, relationship, time, experience, education progress and many more subjects. You will find different mind candy such as The Universal Law of...
Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues
A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technology, and Death and Dying
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Bioethics, Law, and Human Life Issues: A Catholic Perspective on Marriage, Family, Contraception, Abortion, Reproductive Technology, and Death and Dying draws on the Magisterial teaching of the Catholic Church to outline a Catholic response to a host of controversial issues related to human life....
Coming Home
Reclaiming America's Conservative Soul
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Americans have been forced from their homes. Their jobs have been outsourced, their neighborhoods torn down to make room for freeways, their churches shuttered or taken over by social justice warriors, and their very families eviscerated by government programs that assume their functions and a hostile...