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Year: 1964 Publisher: London: Hutchinson university library,
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Year: 1951 Publisher: London: Hutchinson university library,
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Year: 1726 Publisher: A Amsterdam: chez Henri Schelte,
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ISBN: 1621640175 9781621640172 Year: 2016 Publisher: San Francisco: Ignatius Press,
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The "natural law" worldview developed over the course of almost two thousand years beginning with Plato and Aristotle and culminating with St. Thomas Aquinas in the thirteenth century. This tradition holds that the world is ordered, intelligible and good, that there are objective moral truths which we can know and that human beings can achieve true happiness only by following our inborn nature, which draws us toward our own perfection. Most accounts of the natural law are based on a God-centered understanding of the world.After the Natural Law traces this tradition from Plato and Aristotle to Thomas Aquinas and then describes how and why modern philosophers such as Descartes, Locke and Hobbes began to chip away at this foundation. The book argues that natural law is a necessary foundation for our most important moral and political values – freedom, human rights, equality, responsibility and human dignity, among others. Without a theory of natural law, these values lose their coherence: we literally cannot make sense of them given the assumptions of modern philosophy.Part I of the book traces the development of natural law theory from Plato and Aristotle through the crowning achievement of Thomas Aquinas. Part II explores how modern philosophers have systematically chipped away at the only coherent foundation for these values. As a result, our most important moral and political ideals today are incoherent. Modern political and moral thinkers have been led either to dilute the meaning of such terms as freedom or the moral good – or abandon these ideas altogether. Thus, modern philosophy and political thought are leading us either toward anarchy or totalitarianism.The conclusion, entitled "Why God Matters", shows how even the philosophical assumptions of the natural law depend on a personal God.
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ISBN: 0198745001 9780198745006 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,
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Year: 1986 Publisher: Caen: Université de Caen. Centre de philosophie politique et juridique,
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Year: 1987 Publisher: Caen: Université de Caen. Centre de philosophie politique et juridique,
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ISBN: 9780199242993 0199242992 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,
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ISBN: 0709946694 9780709946694 Year: 1987 Publisher: London: Croom Helm,
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ISBN: 9782080413420 2080413422 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris: Flammarion,
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Leo Strauss illustre et défend l'idée de droit naturel contre tout relativisme historique. Pour lui, le besoin du droit naturel est manifeste. En effet, rejeter le droit naturel revient à dire que tout droit est positif ; autrement dit, que le droit est déterminé exclusivement par les législateurs et les tribunaux des différents pays. Or, on ne contestera pas qu'il existe des lois ou des décisions que l'on déclarera injustes. Au nom de quoi faire cette déclaration ? La réponse est donnée majoritairement de nos jours par les sciences sociales qui rejettent le droit naturel au nom de l'histoire et au nom de la différence entre Faits et Valeurs. Leo Strauss s'inscrit en faux contre cette réduction et plaide pour le maintien de la notion de droit naturel, seule source, selon lui, d'une pensée du Juste et de l'Injuste. Ecrit dans une langue très claire et précise, proposant des analyses remarquables de Machiavel, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau et Burke, Droit naturel et histoire est un livre d'une exceptionnelle valeur.