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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... Thomas Aquinas.' The time may be right for a rediscovery of this rich tradition of moral and political thought. If so, a reconsideration of Burke is also in order. Here we confront the well-known problems surrounding the character and ...
... Thomas Aquinas (71, 84, 112, 114, 123, 207, 214, 249). The broader natural law view of Burke goes much further back than Stanlis if we consider James Mackintosh, who, having authored the Vindiciae Gallicae, one of the most influential ...
... Thomas's teaching, although not the whole; the latter is a cartoon. The precise formulation "natural law" (nomos tes phuseos) has its origins in classical Greek thought, although it originally meant something rather more like the "law ...
Peter James Stanlis. St. Thomas Aquinas inherited this tradition in a state of some disorder, and thus when he drafted ... Thomas's treatment of human actions is their object: happiness. Most of the prima secundae treats the principles of ...