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In this text, the author defends the proposition that 'moral laws' can play a legitimate - if subsidiary - role in preserving the 'moral ecology' of the cultural environment in which people live their lives.
Crimes without victims. --- Law and ethics. --- Civil rights. --- Moral conditions. --- Basic rights --- Civil liberties --- Civil rights --- Constitutional rights --- Fundamental rights --- Rights, Civil --- Constitutional law --- Human rights --- Political persecution --- Law and legislation
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A number of leading defenders of natural law and liberalism offer frank and lively exchanges touching upon critical issues surrounding contemporary moral and political theory.
Natural law. --- Law and ethics. --- Liberalism. --- Liberal egalitarianism --- Liberty --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Ethics and law --- Law and morals --- Morals and law --- Law --- Law of nature (Law) --- Natural rights --- Nature, Law of (Law) --- Rights, Natural --- Philosophy
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In this work Robert P. George extends his critique of liberalism, and also goes beyond it to show how contemporary natural law theory provides a superior way of thinking about basic problems of justice and political morality.
Natural law. --- Natural law --- Law, Politics & Government --- Law, General & Comparative --- Law of nature (Law) --- Natural rights --- Nature, Law of (Law) --- Rights, Natural --- Law
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This collection of original essays from distinguished legal philosophers offers a challenging assessment of the nature and viability of legal positivism, an approach to legal theory that continues to dominate contemporary legal theoretical debates.
Legal positivism. --- Law --- Philosophy. --- Jurisprudence --- Legal neopositivism --- Neopositivism in law --- Positivism --- Philosophy --- Legal positivism --- -Philosophy
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John Finnis is a pioneer in the development of a new yet classically-grounded theory of natural law. His work offers a systematic philosophy of practical reasoning and moral choosing that addresses the great questions of the rational foundations of ethical judgments, the identification of moral norms, human agency, and the freedom of the will, personal identity, the common good, the role and functions of law, the meaning of justice, and the relationship of morality and politics toreligion and the life of faith. The core of Finnis' theory, articulated in his seminal work Natural Law and Natural
Natural law. --- Law --- Ethics. --- Philosophy. --- Finnis, John. --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Jurisprudence --- Law of nature (Law) --- Natural rights --- Nature, Law of (Law) --- Rights, Natural --- Finnis, John
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"A history of the practice of abortion in America, based on the stories of the people involved"--
Abortion --- History. --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History --- Christianity --- Abortion, Induced --- Feticide --- Foeticide --- Induced abortion --- Pregnancy termination --- Termination of pregnancy --- Birth control --- Fetal death --- Obstetrics --- Reproductive rights --- Surgery
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