The disintegration of natural law theory Aquinas to Finnis /

Westerman, Pauline C.

The disintegration of natural law theory Aquinas to Finnis / [electronic resource] : by Pauline C. Westerman. - Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1998. - 1 online resource (xii, 313 p.). - Brill's studies in intellectual history, v. 84. 0920-8607 ; . - Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 84. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-305) and index.

Aquinas's variations on a divine theme -- Aquinas's awareness of contingency -- Suarez's distinction between creation and legislation -- The limits of Suarez's natural law theory -- Grotius's humanisation of natural law -- Grotius's shift from natural law to natural rights -- Pufendorf's divine conductor -- Pufendorf's reconstruction of rationality -- Finnis's natural law without nature -- Finnis's decisionism.

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9789004247383 (electronic book) 9004109994 (cloth : alk. paper) 9789004109995 (cloth : alk. paper)

10.1163/9789004247383

97038234


Natural law--History.

K415 / .W47 1998

340/.112