Reason, Religion, and Natural Law

From Plato to Spinoza
Herausgeber: Jacobs, Jonathan A

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This edited volume examines the ways in which theological considerations have figured in natural law theorizing, from Plato to Spinoza.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 168mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780199767175
• ISBN-10: 0199767173
• Artikelnr.: 35330977

Autorenporträt

Jonathan A. Jacobs is Director of the Institute for Criminal Justice Ethics.

Inhaltsangabe

* Notes on Contributors
* Acknowledgments
* Introduction
* PART I Ancient Origins
* 1. "The Rule of Reason in Plato's Laws"
* Fred Miller
* 2. "Stoic Eudaimonism and the Natural Law Tradition"
* Jacob Klein
* PART II Medieval Jewish Philosophy
* 3. "Natural Law in Judaism: A Reconsideration"
* Tamar Rudavsky
* 4. "The Reasons of the Commandments: Rational Tradition without
Natural Law"
* Jonathan Jacobs
* PART III Medieval Christian Philosophy
* 5. "Thomas Aquinas and the Difficulties of Reading the Natural Law
Written on Our Hearts"
* Eileen Sweeney
* 6. "Right Reason in Natural Law Moral Theory: Thomas Aquinas and
William of Ockham"
* Anthony Lisska
* 7. "Natural Law, Moral Constructivism, and Duns Scotus's Metaethics:
The Centrality of Aesthetic Explanation"
* Richard Cross
* PART IV Spinoza and the Transition to Modern Thought
* 8. "Spinoza and Natural Law"
* Jon Miller
* 9. "Agent Centeredness and Natural Law: Perfectionism, Immanence, and
Transcendence"
* Douglas B. Rasmussen, Douglas J. Den Uyl
* Bibliography
* Index