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The disintegration of natural law theory [electronic resource] : Aquinas to Finnis / by Pauline C. Westerman.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Brill's studies in intellectual history ; v. 84.Publication details: Leiden ; New York : Brill, 1998.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 313 p.)ISBN:
  • 9789004247383 (electronic book)
  • 9004109994 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9789004109995 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Disintegration of natural law theory.DDC classification:
  • 340/.112 21
LOC classification:
  • K415 .W47 1998
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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