The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Ethics

Author: Tom Angier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-11-07

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1108422632

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How do ethical norms relate to human nature? This comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume surveys the latest thinking on natural law.


The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Christian Ethics

Author: Robin Gill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 1107000076

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Twenty essays providing an authoritative introduction to Christian ethics, addressing issues such as war, social justice, ecology, sexuality and medicine.


Natural Law Theory

Natural Law Theory

Author: Tom Angier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-09-30

Total Pages: 75

ISBN-13: 9781108706391

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In Section 1, I outline the history of natural law theory, covering Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Aquinas. In Section 2, I explore two alternative traditions of natural law, and explain why these constitute rivals to the Aristotelian tradition. In Section 3, I go on to elaborate a via negativa along which natural law norms can be discovered. On this basis, I unpack what I call three 'experiments in being', each of which illustrates the cogency of this method. In Section 4, I investigate and rebut two seminal challenges to natural law methodology, namely, the fact/value distinction in metaethics and Darwinian evolutionary biology. In Section 5, I then outline and criticise the 'new' natural law theory, which is an attempt to revise natural law thought in light of the two challenges above. I conclude, in Section 6, with a summary and some reflections on the prospects for natural law theory.


The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Ethics

Author: Thomas Williams

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1107167744

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Offers historical and topical chapters on the whole range of medieval ethical thought in Christian, Jewish, and Islamic philosophy.


The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith

The Cambridge Companion to Adam Smith

Author: Knud Haakonssen

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-03-06

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9780521779241

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Adam Smith is best known as the founder of scientific economics and as an early proponent of the modern market economy. Political economy, however, was only one part of Smith's comprehensive intellectual system. Consisting of a theory of mind and its functions in language, arts, science, and social intercourse, Smith's system was a towering contribution to the Scottish Enlightenment. His ideas on social intercourse also served as the basis for a moral theory that provided both historical and theoretical accounts of law, politics, and economics. This Companion volume provides an examination of all aspects of Smith's thought. Collectively, the essays take into account Smith's multiple contexts - Scottish, British, European, Atlantic; biographical, institutional, political, philosophical - and they draw on all of his works, including student notes from his lectures. Pluralistic in approach, the volume provides a contextualist history of Smith, as well as direct philosophical engagement with his ideas.


The Cambridge Companion to Ockham

The Cambridge Companion to Ockham

Author: Paul Vincent Spade

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-12-13

Total Pages: 440

ISBN-13: 9780521587907

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Offers a full discussion of all significant aspects of this medieval philosopher's thought.


Human Values

Human Values

Author: D. Oderberg

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2004-10-14

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0230524141

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In recent decades, the revival of natural law theory in modern moral philosophy has been an exciting and important development. Human Values brings together an international group of moral philosophers who in various respects share the aims and ideals of natural law ethics. In their diverse ways, these authors make distinctive and original contributions to the continuing project of developing natural law ethics as a comprehensive treatment of modern ethical theory and practice.