Natural Law Modernized

David Braybrooke

Published by University of Toronto Press 2001

Natural Law Modernized

David Braybrooke

In the series Toronto Studies in Philosophy

https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442677586

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About this book

Braybrooke challenges received scholarly opinion by arguing that canonical theorists Hobbes, Locke, Hume, and Rousseau took St Thomas Aquinas as their point of reference, reinforcing rather than departing from his natural law theory.

Author / Editor information

Braybrooke David :

David Braybrooke was a professor emeritus in the Department of Philosophy at Dalhousie University and holds the Centennial Commission Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews

Anthony J. Lisska, Professor of Philosophy, Denison University:

'[Natural Law Modernized] is provocative in the good sense, and challenging to many of our commonly held notions about natural law discussions. This book is creative, substantive, offers some quite new and often exciting twists in reading modern moral theory ... [It] will be received with some interest by the philosophical community.'

Richard Vernon, Professor of Political Science, University of Western Ontario:

'[Natural Law Modernized] is provocative in the good sense, and challenging to many of our commonly held notions about natural law discussions. This book is creative, substantive, offers some quite new and often exciting twists in reading modern moral theory ... [It] will be received with some interest by the philosophical community.'

J.E. Finn:

'This is an important contribution to natural law studies.'

Tony Burns:

'This is an important contribution to natural law studies.'

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
1. Did Medieval Natural Law Die Out? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Locke’s Natural Law and St Thomas’s: Secular in Content, Empirical in Foundation Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
3. Rousseau and St Thomas on the Common Good Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
4. Hobbes Allied with St Thomas: An Axiomatic System of Laws Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
5. David Hume: Natural Law Theorist and Moral Realist Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
6. From Private Property in Hume and Locke to the Universality of Natural Laws Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
7. With Us Still: Natural Law Theory Illustrated Today in the Work of David Copp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	178
8. Moral Education Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	196
9. Epilogue: The Lasting Strength of Natural Law Theory in Jurisprudence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
Appendix: Natural Law in Philosophical Traditions outside the Christian West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	295
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	347

Language: English
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 351

eBook

Published: October 2, 2001
ISBN: 9781442677586