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Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics

By Mark J. Cherry

Book information

Publisher
Springer
Year
2004
ISBN
1402022239, 9781402022234
LCC
BJ1012 .N39 2004
Open Library ID
OL22615127M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
952 kB (975227 bytes)
Series
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
Edition
1
Pages
224\224
Topic
Jurisprudence Law
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

Accounts of natural law moral philosophy and theology sought principles and precepts for morality, law, and other forms of social authority, whose prescriptive force was not dependent for validity on human decision, social influence, past tradition, or cultural convention, but through natural reason itself. This volume critically explores and assesses our contemporary culture wars in terms of: the possibility of natural law moral philosophy and theology to provide a unique, content-full, canonical morality; the character and nature of moral pluralism; the limits of justifiable national and international policy seeking to produce and preserve human happiness, social justice, and the common good; the ways in which morality, moral epistemology, and social political reform must be set within the broader context of an appropriately philosophically and theologically anchored anthropology. This work will be of interest to philosophers, theologians, bioethicists, ethicists and political scientists.

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