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The Cambridge Companion to Natural Law Jurisprudence

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George Duke, Robert P. George, John Finnis, Knud Haakonssen, Jonathan Crowe, Christopher Tollefsen,Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, Thomas Pink, Jacqueline Laing, N. E. Simmonds, Mark Greenberg, Robert Alexy, Mark C. Murphy, Gerard V. Bradley, Kristen Rundle
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  • Date Published: June 2017
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781107546462

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  • This collection provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of key topics in contemporary natural law jurisprudence, an influential yet frequently misunderstood branch of legal philosophy. It fills a gap in the existing literature by bringing together leading international experts on natural law theory to provide perspectives on some of the most pressing issues pertaining to the nature and moral foundations of law. Themes covered include the history of the natural law tradition, the natural law account of practical reason, normativity and ethics, natural law approaches to legal obligation and authority and constitutional law. Creating a dialogue between leading figures in natural law thought, the Companion is an ideal introduction to the main commitments of natural law jurisprudence, whilst also offering a concise summary of developments in current scholarship for more advanced readers.

    • Brings together leading international experts in the field
    • Provides a comprehensive overview of cutting edge scholarship in the area
    • Can serve as an introduction to the central area of legal theory, or the first port of call for scholars and students of natural law
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    • Date Published: June 2017
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781107546462
    • length: 468 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 25 mm
    • weight: 0.68kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Introduction George Duke and Robert P. George
    Part I. Foundations:
    2. Aquinas and natural law jurisprudence John Finnis
    3. Natural law, God and human dignity Robert P. George
    4. Early modern natural law theories Knud Haakonssen
    5. Metaphysical foundations of natural law theories Jonathan Crowe
    Part II. Practical Reason, Normativity and Ethics:
    6. Natural law, basic goods, and practical reason Christopher Tollefsen
    7. Practical reason in the context of law Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco
    8. Hume, virtue and natural law Thomas Pink
    9. Natural law reasoning in applied ethics Jacqueline Laing
    Part III. Law and Politics:
    10. Law as an idea we live by N. E. Simmonds
    11. The moral impact theory, the dependence view, and natural law Mark Greenberg
    12. The ideal dimension of law Robert Alexy
    13. Two unhappy dilemmas for natural law jurisprudence Mark C. Murphy
    14. The common good George Duke
    15. Natural law theory and constitutionalism Gerard V. Bradley
    16. Opening the doors of inquiry: Lon Fuller and the natural law tradition Kristen Rundle.

  • Editors

    George Duke, Deakin University, Victoria
    George Duke is Senior Lecturer at Deakin University, Victoria. His research interests include the political and legal philosophy of Aristotle and natural law jurisprudence. He has published on these themes in journals such as Legal Theory, The American Journal of Jurisprudence, Law and Philosophy, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy, The Review of Metaphysics and The Review of Politics.

    Robert P. George, Princeton University, New Jersey
    Robert P. George is McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University, New Jersey. He is also the Herbert W. Vaughan senior fellow of the Witherspoon Institute, New Jersey and frequently a Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He has served on the US Commission on Civil Rights, the US President's Council on Bioethics, and as Chairman of the US Commission on International Religious Freedom, and has been honoured with the US Presidential Citizens Medal and the Honorific Medal for Human Rights of the Republic of Poland.

    Contributors

    George Duke, Robert P. George, John Finnis, Knud Haakonssen, Jonathan Crowe, Christopher Tollefsen,Veronica Rodriguez-Blanco, Thomas Pink, Jacqueline Laing, N. E. Simmonds, Mark Greenberg, Robert Alexy, Mark C. Murphy, Gerard V. Bradley, Kristen Rundle

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