Natural Law and the Possibility of a Global Ethics

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...

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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
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Online Access:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Table of Contents:
  • Confronting Moral Pluralism: Assessing Universal Applicability
  • Natural Law and Global Ethics
  • Natural Law and Moral Pluralism
  • Natural Law and Modern Meta-Ethics
  • Moral Identity and the Natural Law Theory
  • Engaging The Limits of Human Nature
  • Global Ethics and Natural Law
  • Natural Law and Conflict
  • Natural Law and Historical Mindedness
  • An Assessment of the Requirements of the Study of Natural Law
  • Beyond Rationalistic Philosophy: Assessing Universal Accessibility
  • Natural Law and Global Ethics
  • The Perversity of Thomistic Natural Law Theory
  • Natural Law and the Free Church Tradition
  • Natural Law and the Free Church Tradition: A Biblicist Responds
  • The Natural Law Tradition and a Culture in Crisis
  • Insights and Hindsights from Seeking a Global Ethic.