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The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law
S. Adam Seagrave
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Hardcover. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural law as its foundation or are the two ideas, as Leo Strauss argued, profoundly incompatible? The author addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of natural morality that compellingly unites the concepts of natural law and natural rights. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and contemporary human rights. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural law as its foundation or are the two ideas, as Leo Strauss argued, profoundly incompatible? With The Foundations of Natural Morality, S. Adam Seagrave addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of natural morality that compellingly unites the concepts of natural law and natural ... Read more
Recent years have seen a renaissance of interest in the relationship between natural law and natural rights. During this time, the concept of natural rights has served as a conceptual lightning rod, either strengthening or severing the bond between traditional natural law and contemporary human rights. Does the concept of natural rights have the natural law as its foundation or are the two ideas, as Leo Strauss argued, profoundly incompatible? With The Foundations of Natural Morality, S. Adam Seagrave addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of natural morality that compellingly unites the concepts of natural law and natural ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
184
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226123431
SKU
V9780226123431
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About S. Adam Seagrave
S. Adam Seagrave is assistant professor of political science at Northern Illinois University. He lives in DeKalb, IL.
Reviews for The Foundations of Natural Morality: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law
"The Foundations of Natural Morality represents an ambitious and original effort to reformulate the contemporary debate about natural law and natural rights. Seagrave employs historical and textual analysis, as well as sophisticated theoretical reconstruction, to demonstrate the ultimate compatibility of the classical natural law and the early modern natural rights traditions generally seen as constituting distinct-even mutually hostile-approaches to questions ... Read more