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‘Natural Law’

2011
AbstractAn essay from 1986, this chapter provides a summary for American jurists, modified and supplemented in 1996 for a French dictionary of philosophy. It investigates the reasons, philosophical and historical, for labelling some ethical, political, and legal theories ‘natural law’.It shows that a primary concern of such theories is the critique ...
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Laws of nature

Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017
We speak to An Cliquet, a professor in the Department of European, Public and International Law at Ghent University, about working at the interface between conservation, biodiversity and law.
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Laws of nature and natural laws

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A, 2006
Abstract The relationship between conceptions of law and conceptions of nature is a complex one, and proceeds on what appear to be two distinct fronts. On the one hand, we frequently talk of nature as being lawlike or as obeying laws. On the other hand there are schools of philosophy that seek to justify ethics generally, or legal theory specifically,
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Fundamental Laws Of Nature

Hospital Practice, 1989
Abstract Sitting In An Auditorium at the California Institute of Technology one Friday morning in January, my thoughts began to drift. We were assembled to celebrate the 60th birthday of Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, and the room was filled with people listening to talks on the future of research on the fundamental laws of nature ...
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Natural Law and Laws of Nature

2001
Abstract My instinct is to entitle this chapter “Natural Law (Sort Of).” This is because what I present in this chapter is a limited version of natural law. It certainly does not pretend to be a full rendering of the natural law tradition.
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Natural Law and the Nature of Law: Kelsen’s Paradox

2017
Is it possible to articulate a genuine pure theory of law without it ceasing to be a positivist theory of law? The project of a pure theory of law can be held to presuppose a “nature of law” whose criteria lead to transcendence with respect to positive law, even though it is not its purpose.
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Law and Natural Law

2012
AbstractAquinas's account of law as an ordering of reason for the common good of a community depends on the mereology that covered his theory of parthood relations, including the relations of parts to parts and parts to wholes. Aquinas argued that ‘all who are included in a community stand in relation to that community as parts to a whole’, and ‘every ...
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Natural Law

The American Journal of Jurisprudence, 2007
Abstract Theories of natural law propose to identify fundamental aspects of human well-being and fulfillment (“basic human goods”), and norms of conduct entailed by their integral directiveness or prescriptivity (“moral norms”). Propositions picking out basic aspects of human flourishing are directive (prescriptive) in our thinking about
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