Natural law
Subtitle: an introduction and re-examination
By: Howard P. Kainz.
Publisher: Open Court
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Ethics; Natural law
Description: "Howard Kainz surveys the history of natural law from its foreshadowing in ancient Greece down to the most recent controversies. Natural Law both introduces the subject to newcomers and sheds fresh light on such figures as Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Veatch, McInerny, Grisez and Finnis."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 135-141) and index.
Table of contents: title: Concepts of natural law in ancient Greece and Rome; title: Aquinas and Suarez; title: Grotius to Kant; title: Contemporary developments in natural law; title: Conceptual analyses of issues in natural law theory; title: Problem areas in natural law; title: Types and classifications of natural law; title: Natural law and contemporary issues.