Patriarchal Religion, Sexuality, and Gender - A Critique of New Natural Law

Klappentext Legal theorists are familiar with John Finnis's book Natural Law and Natural Rights, but usually overlook his interventions in US constitutional debates and his membership of a group of conservative Catholic thinkers, the 'new natural lawyers', led by theologian Germain Grisez. In fact, Finnis has repeatedly advocated conservative positions concerning lesbian and gay rights, contraception and abortion, and his substantive moral theory (as he himself acknowledges) derives from Grisez. Bamforth and Richards provide a detailed explanation of the work of the new natural lawyers within and outside the Catholic Church - the first truly comprehensive explanation available to legal theorists - and criticize Grisez's and Finnis's arguments concerning sexuality and gender. New natural law is, they argue, a theology rather than a secular theory, and one which is unappealing in a modern constitutional democracy. This book will be of interest to legal and political theorists, ethicists, theologians and scholars of religious history. Zusammenfassung By looking at Thomas Aquinas' school of thought and comparing it to the new natural lawyers! this book offers a glimpse at the disconnect. This book examines the new natural lawyers' flawed way of viewing hierarchy and offers a critique of the forms of fundamentalism and how they arose. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. New natural law in context; 2. The architecture and reach of new natural law; 3. Criteria for evaluating new natural law; 4. Internal consistency: is new natural law secular?; 5. Internal consistency: is new natural law Thomistic?; 6. Substantive appeal: what's wrong with homophobia and sexism?; 7. Substantive appeal: new natural law, sexism, and homophobia; 8. Substantive appeal: moral absolutes and the inconsistent fundamentalism of new natural law; 9. New natural law and patriarchal religion; 10. Conclusions: Christian alternatives to new natural law.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Nicholas Bamforth, Nicholas (University of Oxford) Richards Bamforth, Nicholas Richards Bamforth, Bamforth Nicholas, David A. J. Richards, Richards David A. J.
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 14.04.2011
• EAN: 9780521173360
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17336-0
• Seiten: 416
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Philosophie > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Recht > Internationales Recht, Ausländisches Recht; PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Legal Ethics & Professional Conduct, Legal ethics and professional conduct, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law