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Informationen zum Autor Jacqueline A. Laing is Senior Lecturer in Law at London Metropolitan University. She has a doctorate in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford and first degrees in philosophy and law from the Australian National University. A barrister of the High Court of Australia and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales, Dr. Laing writes on a wide range of subjects in philosophy, law and jurisprudence.Russell Wilcox is Visiting Professor in Law at the University of Navarre, where he is also a Research Fellow in its newly established Institute of Culture and Society. He is a barrister of Gray's Inn and has a PhD from the University of London. Klappentext The natural law tradition is an enduring one that has been at the very heart of Western ethical, political, and jurisprudential development. The Natural Law Reader is a wide-ranging and representative series of readings deriving from the classical natural law tradition, following its development and applications in the modern world. Drawing principally upon the metaphysical and ethical categories first put forth by Aristotle and championed by Aquinas and others, this set of readings takes us into metaphysics, jurisprudence, politics, and ethics, demonstrating the tradition's historical continuity and contemporary relevance. While the first part of the book introduces the reader to that historical development, the latter part vindicates the natural law tradition's relevance to current ethical, political, and jurisprudential discourse. Specific areas of public policy are considered in a final series of readings. Scholarly and thought-provoking, The Natural Law Reader offers prescient insights into a tradition that remains one of the most resolute foundations of Western civilization. Zusammenfassung The Natural Law Reader presents a representative and wide-ranging series of readings related to the classical Natural Law tradition in the modern world, which draws upon the metaphysical and ethical categories first put forth and developed by Aristotle and Aquinas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements xi1 General Introduction 12 Historical Readings 52.1 Ancient 7Introduction 72.1.1 Heraclitus, Fragments 112.1.2 Sophocles, Antigone 132.1.3 The Hippocratic Oath 142.1.4 Plato, Apology 152.1.5 Plato, Crito 222.1.6 Plato, Phaedo 282.1.7 Plato, Laws 342.1.8 Plato, Republic 402.1.9 Aristotle, Rhetoric and Nicomachean Ethics 482.1.10 Aristotle, Politics 632.1.11 Marcus Aurelius, The Meditations 662.1.12 Cicero, The Republic, Book III 692.1.13 Cicero, The Laws 712.1.14 The Holy Bible, Romans 2: 1-16 802.2 Early Christian and Medieval 81Introduction 812.2.1 Tertullian, Against Marcion and Apologeticus 862.2.2 Justinian, The Institutes 902.2.3 St. Augustine 93Confessions 93On Eighty Three Diverse Questions 94Commentary on the Sermon on the Mount 94De libero arbitrio (The Free Choice of the Will) 95De Trinitate 9525th Sermon on Psalm 118 96Letter 157 (Epist., 157) 962.2.4 St. Augustine, The City of God 972.2.5 Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Contra Gentiles(Of God and His Creatures) 1072.2.6 St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica 1132.2.7 Ibn Sina, A Treatise on Love 1372.2.8 Ibn Rushd, On the Harmony of Religions and Philosophy 1462.2.9 Moses Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed 1552.2.10 Moses Maimonides, The Eight Chapters of Maimonideson Ethics (Shemonah Perakim) 1582.3 Early Modern 167Introduction 1672.3.1 Francisco de Vitoria, De Indis et De Iure Belli Relectiones 1732.3.2 Francisco Suarez, De Legibus 1822.3.3 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 1902.3.4 Hugo Grotius, On the Law of War and Peace(De Jure Belli ac Pacis) 1952.3.5 Samuel von Pufendorf, De Officio Hominis et CivisJuxta Legem Naturalem Libri Duo 2012.3.6 John Locke, Second Treatise of Government 2052.3.7 Sir William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Lawsof England in Four Books ...
