Natural law and Human Nature

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Call Number: BOCD 171.2 Ko Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Compact disc.
Philosophical approach -- General nature of ethics -- Law, nature, Natural law -- Principles of natural law theory -- Greek ideas of nature and justice -- Aristotle's clarification of "nature"' -- Aristotle on justice and politics -- Stoic idea of natural law -- Biblical views of nature and law -- Early Christians, nature and law -- Roman, canon and natural law -- Thomistic Synthesis -- Late medieval and early modern views -- Hobbes and Locke -- Natural law and the founding fathers -- Descartes, Rousseau, and Kant -- Can rights exist without natural law? -- Question of evolution -- Paradox of cultural relativism -- Problem of God -- Current applications-jurisprudence -- Current applications-bioethics -- Current applications-social ethics -- Eternal return of natural law.
Lecturer: Joseph Koterski, Fordham University.
Presents 24 lectures dealing with both philosophical and historical considerations for the idea of a natural moral law and its basis in our common human nature.

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