Natural Law and Legal Practice: Lectures Delivered at the Law School of Georgetown UniversityReprint of the sole edition. Based on a series of lectures, this study examines questions of taxation, capital and labor organizations, strikes and boycotts and other major social issues. Its solutions are inspired by principles of Christian philosophy and adapted to actual conditions of society. Its contents include "Teleology, or Moral Causation," "Essence, Concrete Existence, and Attributes of Natural Law," "Human Acts and Animal Motions," "Freedom of the Will," "Utilitarianism," "Justice," "The Individual, The Family, The State," "Property," "On Taxation," "Conflict of Rights," "Combinations of Capital, and Labor Organizations" and "Legal Ethics." René I. Holaind [1836-1913], a Jesuit, was a notable neo-scholastic philosopher. He was Professor of Ethics and Sociology at Woodstock College, and Lecturer on Natural and Canon Law at Georgetown University. 344 pp. |
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