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Grotius on Natural Law and Supererogation

Journal of the history of philosophy, 2019
:This article provides a novel interpretation of Grotius’s conception of natural law. Prior interpretations have overlooked Grotius’s doctrine of supererogation and have hence misrepresented, in varying ways, the content of his law of nature and its ...
J. Olsthoorn
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Natural Law and the Nature of Law

, 2019
This book provides the first systematic, book-length defence of natural law ideas in ethics, politics and jurisprudence since John Finnis's influential Natural Law and Natural Rights.
J. Crowe
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Black natural law

Research Handbook on Natural Law Theory, 2016
Black Natural Law introduces and analyzes a “tradition” (Vincent Lloyd’s term throughout the text) of African American natural law reflection. In so doing, Lloyd dismantles stubborn boundaries between Christian ethics, black religion, and American ...
V. Lloyd
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On the Nature of the Nature of Law [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
What is it for something to have a nature? And what is it for law to have a nature? Analysis of the concept of law has often been taken to be a search for the essential features of law, but it is not clear that the nature of a phenomenon or artifact is better explained by its essential features than by its common ones.
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The Cambridge companion to natural law jurisprudence

, 2017
This collection provides an intellectually rigorous and accessible overview of key topics in contemporary natural law jurisprudence, an in fl uential yet frequently misunderstood branch of legal philosophy.
George Duke, R. George
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Natural Law Theories

, 2016
This article considers natural law perspectives on the nature of law. Natural law theories are united by what Mark Murphy calls the natural law thesis: law is necessarily a rational standard for conduct.
J. Crowe
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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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How Hume and Kant Reconstruct Natural Law: Justifying Strict Objectivity without Debating Moral Realism

, 2016
Acknowledgements Primary Sources and Citation Methods 1. Reconstructing Moral Constructivism 2. Objectivity, the Euthyphro Question, and Reconstructing Natural Law 3. Hume's Construction of Justice 4. Hume's Proof of the Insufficiency of Moral Sentiments
K. Westphal
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Laws of Nature

2012
The discovery of the laws of nature has long been considered a principal aim of science. Of course, many laws that science discovers are not commonly designated “laws.” Alongside Boyle’s law, the law of universal gravitation, and the law of supply and demand, there are Archimedes’ principle, Maxwell’s equations, and the formulas of stoichiometry ...
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Zeno’s Republic, Plato’s Laws, and the Early Development of Stoic Natural Law Theory

, 2015
Recent scholarship on Stoic political thought has sought to explain the relationship between Zeno’s Republic and the concept of a natural law regulating a cosmic city of gods and human beings that is attributed to later Stoics.
J. Atkins
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