A Natural Law Approach to Normativity

Author: Bebhinn Donnelly
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: normativity, approach, law, natural
Number of Pages: 167
Published: 2007-02
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754643131
ISBN-13: 9780754643135

Book Description:

Drawing on Natural Law theory, this volume argues that moral meaning resides in very basic, essential, natural facts about our existence as human beings. The author demonstrates the validity of this belief, its significance for normativity and illustrates how early natural lawyers implicitly suggested a sophisticated and largely successful reason-based solution to Hume’s ’is/ought’ problem. The work provides a new approach to Natural Law theory which addresses the problematic reliance on ’essential’ facts. "A Natural Approach to Normativity" presents an original perspective on new natural law theory and will be of interest to academics in philosophy of law/moral philosophy, natural law theorists, and students of jurisprudence internationally.


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