Natural Moral Law - The Good After Modernity

Informationen zum Autor Owen Anderson is an Associate Professor at Arizona State University. He teaches philosophy and religious studies. His main classes are 'Philosophy of Religion', 'Ethics', 'Religion in America' and 'World Religious Traditions'. He is the author of Reason and Worldviews and The Clarity of God's Existence. Klappentext This book studies beliefs about the good and how it is known, and how such beliefs shape claims about the moral law. Zusammenfassung This book considers whether the good can be known after the challenges of postmodernity. The author studies influential ancient thinkers and how they understood the good! giving special attention to modernity and why it failed to explain the good. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Owen Anderson, Owen (Associate Professor Anderson, Anderson Owen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2012
• EAN: 9781107008427
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00842-7
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law