The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law - Brossura

Seagrave, S. Adam

 
9780226380674: The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law
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ISBN 10: 022638067X ISBN 13: 9780226380674
Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2016

Sinossi

Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and contemporary human rights. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural law as its foundation or are the two ideas, as Leo Strauss argued, profoundly incompatible?


With The Foundations of Natural Morality, S. Adam Seagrave addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of natural morality that compellingly unites the concepts of natural law and natural rights. Seagrave agrees with Strauss that the idea of natural rights is distinctly modern and does not derive from traditional natural law. Despite their historical distinctness, however, he argues that the two ideas are profoundly compatible and that the thought of John Locke and Thomas Aquinas provides the key to reconciling the two sides of this long-standing debate. In doing so, he lays out a coherent concept of natural morality that brings together thinkers from Plato and Aristotle to Hobbes and Locke, revealing the insights contained within these disparate accounts as well as their incompleteness when considered in isolation. Finally, he turns to an examination of contemporary issues, including health care, same-sex marriage, and the death penalty, showing how this new account of morality can open up a more fruitful debate.

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Informazioni sull?autore

S. Adam Seagrave is assistant professor of political science at Northern Illinois University. He lives in DeKalb, IL.

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Editore
University of Chicago Press
Data di pubblicazione
2016
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
022638067X
ISBN 13 
9780226380674
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
184
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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ISBN 10:  022612343X ISBN 13:  9780226123431
Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2014
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