Foundations of Natural Morality
Subtitle: On the Compatibility of Natural Rights and the Natural Law
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780226123431
Subjects: Ethics, history; Natural law; Locke, john, 1632-1704
Description: 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 this book, S. Adam Seagrave addresses this controversy, offering an entirely new account of natural morality that compellingly unites the concepts of natural law and natural rights.