Giambattista Vico on Natural Law - Rhetoric, Religion and Sensus Communis

List of contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION

1. EXCAVATING ROMAN LEGAL HISTORY






CHAPTER ONE: VICO’S LEGAL MILIEU




CHAPTER TWO: VICO’S UNIVERSAL LAW: RELIGION, RHETORIC AND THE ROMAN PARADIGM




CHAPTER THREE: NATURAL LAW IN THE FIRST NEW SCIENCE




CHAPTER FOUR: NATURAL LAW LAND THE REVISED NEW SCIENCE




CHAPTER FIVE: REPRISE: THE SENSES OF THE SENSUS COMMUNIS





2. NATURAL LAW AND SENSUS COMMUNIS

CHAPTER SIX: THE ARISTOTELIAN-THOMIST TRADITION

CHAPTER SEVEN: VICO’S PLACE IN THE NATURAL LAW TRADITION

CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION: NATURAL LAW IN THE BARBARISM OF REFLECTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

About the author

John Schaeffer is Emeritus Professor of English at Northern Illinois, US

Summary

This book introduces the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) into the discussion about natural law.

Product details

• Authors: John Schaeffer, Schaeffer John
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367671310
• ISBN: 978-0-367-67131-0
• No. of pages: 132
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Political, LAW / General, LAW / Legal History, HISTORY / Social History, LAW / Jurisprudence, LAW / Essays, LAW / Natural Law, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Renaissance, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law