Narrative, nature, and the natural law
Subtitle: from Aquinas to international human rights
By: C. Fred Alford
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9780230622791
Description: Beginning with Saint Thomas Aquinas and ending with the latest developments in international human rights, "Narrative, Nature, and the Natural Law: From Aquinas to International Human Rights," brings a fairly traditional interpretation of the natural law to some rather untraditional problems and areas, including evolutionary natural law. The term "traditional interpretation" refers not to the religious or ideological perspective of the book, but rather to the view that natural law is "written on the heart." Untraditional is the way the book uses narrative theory to put feelings into words, and words into feelings. In other words, stories, rather than argument, become the basic unit of the natural law.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-168) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Saint Thomas : putting nature into natural law; title: Maritain and the love for the natural law; title: The new natural law and evolutionary natural law; title: International human rights, natural law, and Locke; title: Conclusion : Evil and the limits of the natural law.