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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... in the Republic, "all time and all being" and thus he holds human affairs as "nothing great." The philosopher prefers to contemplate the divine rather than tend to human affairs.10 Similarly, INTRODUCTION TO THE TRANSACTION EDITION xiii.
Peter James Stanlis. contemplate the divine rather than tend to human affairs.10 Similarly, the Athenian stranger in Plato's Laws pronounces human affairs only "worthy of a certain seriousness."11 Aristotle holds that practical wisdom or ...
... Divine law refers specifically to God's law as explicitly revealed to man. The precepts of the natural law themselves have a kind of hierarchy that follows the order of natural inclinations rooted in human nature: at the low end there ...
... divine providence that he sometimes skirted the edges of a kind of divine command theory: "I allow that if no supreme ruler exists, wise to form, and potent to enforce, the moral law, there is no sanction to any contract, virtual or ...
... Divine Law (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1999); Edward B. McLean, ed., Common Truths: New Perspectives on Natural Law (Wilmington, Delaware: ISI Books, 2000) ; Robert P. George and Christopher Wolfe, eds., Natural Law and Public ...