Aquinas''s Theory of Natural Law - An Analytic Reconstruction

Zusatztext All in all! this is a most welcome book...the range of the book is impressive! but just what it must be if the interpretation is to be sustained. Lisska's readers are confronted by a number of deconstructions...Lisska! in his workmanlike way! gains the respect and confidence of his reader. His book should be read and debated. It is a genuine contribution to the effort to decide what in the world moral philosophy is. Klappentext Recognized as one of the greatest minds of the middle ages! Aquinas's ideas--highly influential on the development of Christian doctrine--are still of fundamental philosophical importance today. This new critique of his theory of natural law discusses the theory's origins with Aristotle and advances new interpretations of contemporary legal issues which hark back to the time of Aquinas. Zusammenfassung This new critique of Aquinas's theory of natural law presents an incisive, new analysis of the central themes and relevant texts in the Summa Theologiae which became the classical canon for natural law.

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• Authors: Anthony Lisska, Anthony J. Lisska, Anthony J. (Professor of Philosophy Lisska, Lisska Anthony J.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.11.1997
• EAN: 9780198269670
• ISBN: 978-0-19-826967-0
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; LAW / General, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Systems of law, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Medieval Western philosophy, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law