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Natural law, laws of nature, natural rights : continuity and discontinuity in the history of ideas / Francis Oakley.
- Title
- Natural law, laws of nature, natural rights : continuity and discontinuity in the history of ideas / Francis Oakley.
- Author
- Oakley, Francis.
- Publication
- New York : Continuum, 2005.
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- Description
- 143 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "This book focuses on three bodies of theory that developed between the thirteenth and seventeenth centuries: (I) the foundational belief in the existence of a moral/juridical natural law, embodying universal norms of right and wrong and accessible to natural human reason; (2) the understanding of (scientific) uniformities of nature as divinely imposed laws, which rose to prominence in the seventeenth century; and (3), finally, the notion that individuals are bearers of inalienable natural or human rights. While seen today as distinct bodies of theory often locked in mutual conflict, these three intellectual constructs grew up inextricably intertwined. The book argues that they cannot be properly understood if taken each in isolation from the other."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Natural law > History
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-137) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Metaphysical schemata and intellectual traditions -- Laws of nature :: the scientific : the scientific concept -- Natural law : disputed moments of transition -- Natural rights : origins and grounding.
- ISBN
- 0826417655 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005015096
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library