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The notion of ânatural lawâ has repeatedly furnished human beings with a shared grammar in times of moral and cultural crisis. Stoic natural law, for example, emerged precisely when the Ancient World lost the Greek polis, which had been the point of reference for Plato's and Aristotle's political philosophy. In key moments such as this, natural law has enabled moral and legal dialogue between peoples and traditions holding apparently clashing world-views. This volume revisits some of these key moments in intellectual and social history, partly with an eye to extracting valuable lessons for ideological conflicts in the present and perhaps near future. The contributions to this volume discuss both historical and contemporary schools of natural law. Topics on historical schools of natural law include: how Aristotelian theory of rules paved the way for the birth of the idea of \"natural law\"; the idea's first mature account in Cicero's work; the tension between two rival meanings of âmanâs rational natureâ in Aquinasâ natural law theory; and the scope of Kantâs allusions to ânatural lawâ. Topics on contemporary natural law schools include: John Finnis's and Germain Grisez's ânew natural law theoryâ; natural law theories in a \"broader\" sense, such as Adolf Reinachâs legal phenomenology; Ortega y Gassetâs and Schelerâs âethical perspectivismâ; the natural law response to Kelsenâs conflation of democracy and moral relativism; natural law's role in 20th century international law doctrine; Ronald Dworkinâs understanding of law as âa branch of political moralityâ; and Alasdair Macintyreâs \"virtue\"-based approach to natural law.â |
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