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Natural Law and Natural Rights in Islamic Law [PDF]

Journal of Law and Religion, 2004
To even begin suggesting that a natural law tradition exists in Islamic law, one has to overcome the hurdles set by those who avowedly deny that such a tradition exists. Respected Islamicists such as Patricia Crone and the late George Makdisi have stated in no uncertain terms that there is no natural law tradition in Islam. Presumably what they mean by
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DIDEROT – POLITICAL THINKER

Filolog, 2021
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) didn’t write a political treatise and he hardly systematically presented his political ideas, but these do exist in his work and they can be brought together.
Milan N. Janjić
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Hobbes and Selfish Morality in the State of Nature [PDF]

Ideas y Valores, 2008
In this paper I explore the controversial claim that morality exists in the Hobbesian state of nature (represented in the rationality and prudence of natural laws), and how this moral is a necessary condition to achieve civil state.
Maximiliano Martínez
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THE METHODOLOGY USED TO INTERPRET CUSTOMARY LAND TENURE

Potchefstroom Electronic Law Journal, 2012
Customary land tenure is normally not based on codified or statutory sources, but stems from customary traditions and norms. When westernised courts have to interpret and adjudicate these customary traditions and norms, the normal rules of statutory ...
Gerrit Pienaar
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From Ethical Naturalism to Aquinas’ Notion of Natural Law: A Non-Trivial Convergence?

Religions
Is it possible for Aquinas’s moral theology to engage constructively with contemporary moral naturalism? The proposed question has already been a subject of scholarly interest, eliciting various responses.
Mariano Asla, María Soledad Paladino
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Rhetoric of natural law in the public discourse of Benedict XVI

Church, Communication and Culture
The paper examines the rhetorical imagination of the Catholic speaker in public discourse on the basis of the parliamentary discourses of Pope Benedict XVI. According to this researcher, Pope Benedict XVI’s rhetorical model in the speeches is an extended
Jottin Jose
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The Laws of Nature and the Nature of Law

, 2017
In the present work, the author narrates the transition occurred don the science realm, going from a rationalist and mechanist vision of the world, to a more holistic and ecologist one. Still, he shows that this transition has not occurred in the realm of law, which still remains in the previous paradigm.
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Natural Resources Management Law

Ecology, Economy and Society – The INSEE Journal
M K Ramesh
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Natural Natural Law and Positive Natural Law

The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 1960
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The nature of law

Philosophica, 1979
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