Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cherry, Mark J. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Series: Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture, 11
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Religion.; Ethics.; Political science.; Philosophy, general.; Religious Studies, general.; Philosophy of Law.

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...