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Laws of Nature and Theory Choice
Synthese, 2022I articulate a Global Best-System Account (GBSA) of laws of nature along broadly Mill–Ramsey–Lewis lines. The guiding idea is that the job of laws is to capture real patterns across time—where a pattern is real if it allows to compress information about matters of particular fact. The GBSA’s key ingredient is a definition of ‘best system’ in terms of a
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2017
In this chapter we will critically examine natural law theory and the proposal that there is a necessary connection between positive (human-created) family law and natural family law (objectively valid, universal moral rules not created by humans). Natural law theory, as it applies to family law, proposes that the rules of positive family law are valid
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In this chapter we will critically examine natural law theory and the proposal that there is a necessary connection between positive (human-created) family law and natural family law (objectively valid, universal moral rules not created by humans). Natural law theory, as it applies to family law, proposes that the rules of positive family law are valid
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, 2010 This text offers a sustained jurisprudential inquiry into Islamic natural law theory. It introduces readers to the central figures in the Islamic natural law tradition and their canonical works, analyses the historical development of Islamic ...
Emon, Anver M.
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Politics, 1995
This paper examines Hegel's attitude towards natural law theory. Commentators disagree on this. Some say that Hegel is hostile to natural law theory and that he is a legal positivist. Others say that he is in fact, a natural law theorist in the conventional sense. The paper argues that both of these interpretations are incorrect. It takes the view that
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This paper examines Hegel's attitude towards natural law theory. Commentators disagree on this. Some say that Hegel is hostile to natural law theory and that he is a legal positivist. Others say that he is in fact, a natural law theorist in the conventional sense. The paper argues that both of these interpretations are incorrect. It takes the view that
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LIBERTY AND NATURAL RIGHTS IN PUFENDORF’S NATURAL LAW THEORY
20061 The standard scholarly editions of these two works are Pufendorf 1997 and Pufendorf 1998. English translations in this article are, with slight alterations, from Pufendorf 1927, Pufendorf 1934, Pufendorf 1991, and Pufendorf 1994 (an English translation of De Officio from 1691 is available in Pufendorf 2003).
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On the nature of scientific laws and theories
Zeitschrift für allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie, 1989Ist der Unterschied zwischen wissenschaftlichen Gesetzen und Theorien ein qualitativer oder lediglich von quantitativer Art? Der Autor versucht zu zeigen, das Gesetze und Theorien fundamental verschieden sind und das die Kenntnis ihrer verschiedenen Natur notwendig fur ein richtiges Wissenschaftsverstandnis ist.
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2017
This chapter explains the acknowledgment that, through various paths, modern natural law theory begins with Hobbes. Its point of arrival is the acknowledgment that Hobbes's natural law theory is such as to pave the way to legal positivism, more than to perfect the edifice of traditional natural law theory. Hobbes's main aim in elaborating his political
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This chapter explains the acknowledgment that, through various paths, modern natural law theory begins with Hobbes. Its point of arrival is the acknowledgment that Hobbes's natural law theory is such as to pave the way to legal positivism, more than to perfect the edifice of traditional natural law theory. Hobbes's main aim in elaborating his political
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The Foundation of the Theory of Natural Law
1973I have accepted your invitation to speak on natural law — in this circle of supporters of that doctrine — not with any intention of converting you to my point of view, namely that from a scientifically rational standpoint one cannot accept the validity of natural law. For I do not consider such a conversion possible, and that for a reason which follows
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St. Thomas Aquinas’s Natural Law Theory and the New Natural Law Theory: A Debate
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