Edmund Burke and the Natural LawTransaction Publishers, 10.03.2015 - 311 Seiten Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral, legal, and political thought presents a challenge not faced for almost two hundred years. On the surface, there would appear to be little room in the contemporary world for a widespread belief in natural law. The basic philosophies of the opposition--the rationalism of the philosophes, the utilitarianism of Bentham, the materialism of Marx--appear to have made prior philosophies irrelevant. Yet these newer philosophies themselves have been overtaken by disillusionment born of conflicts between "might" and "right." Many thoughtful people who were loyal to secular belief have become dissatisfied with the lack of normative principles and have turned once more to natural law. This first book-length study of Edmund Burke and his philosophy, originally published in 1958, explores this intellectual giant's relationship to, and belief in, the natural law. It has long been thought that Edmund Burke was an enemy of the natural law, and was a proponent of conservative utilitarianism. Peter J. Stanlis shows that, on the contrary, Burke was one of the most eloquent and profound defenders of natural law morality and politics in Western civilization. A philosopher in the classical tradition of Aristotle and Cicero, and in the Scholastic tradition of Aquinas, Burke appealed to natural law in the political problems he encountered in American, Irish, Indian, and British affairs, and in reaction to the French Revolution. This book is as relevant today as it was when it was first published, and will be mandatory reading for students of philosophy, political science, law, and history. |
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... and index. ISBN 0-7658-0990-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Burke, Edmund, 1729-1797—Contributions in law. 2. Natural law. I. Title. K457.B8S73 2003 340'. 112—dc21 2003042629 TO DR. JOHN C. H. WU Defender of the Natural.
Peter James Stanlis. TO DR. JOHN C. H. WU Defender of the Natural Law Contents Introduction the Transaction Edition ix Foreword xxix Preface xxxiii.
... John Austin or James Fitzjames Stephen? John Stuart Mill certainly saw Austin as having deviated from the views of Bentham and his father, and Stephen is one of the best known critics of Mill's liberalism. By the same token, natural law ...
... ). 2. Ted Honderich, ed., Oxford Companion to Philosophy (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995), 111. 3. John Bartlett, ed.,J. Kaplan, gen. ed., Familiar Quotations, 16th INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION XXV.
Peter James Stanlis. 3. John Bartlett, ed.,J. Kaplan, gen. ed., Familiar Quotations, 16th ed. (Boston: Little Brown, 192), 332. The quote is from the impeachment trial of Warren Hastings (May 28, 1794). 4. The reasons for this are ...