Natural Law and Human Rights - Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason

List of contents

1. Why Natural Law Matters

2. Counsels of Fear

3. The Order of the State without Right or Law

4. The Law, Slave to Rights

5. The Individual and the Agent

6. Natural Law and Human Motives

Appendix: Recovering Law's Intelligence

About the author

Pierre Manent is professor emeritus of political philosophy at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales. He is the author of numerous books, including Montaigne: Life without Law (University of Notre Dame Press, 2020).

Ralph C. Hancock is professor of political science at Brigham Young University.

Daniel J. Mahoney is the Augustinian Boulanger Chair and professor of political science at Assumption College.

Product details

• Authors: Pierre Manent
• Assisted by: Ralph C. Hancock (Translation)
• Publisher: University Of Notre Dame Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2020
• EAN: 9780268107215
• ISBN: 978-0-268-10721-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Series: Catholic Ideas for a Secular World
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works