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Contemporary Protestant Thought on Natural Law
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Natural Law and Virtue Ethics in Justin Martyr
This study contends that due to the natural law’s universal knowability, Justin used it to construct an apologetic within an eudaimonistic account of Christian virtue that served his political, theological, and evangelistic ends. Chapter 1 summarizes recent research regarding Justin’s relationship …
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Acting in Conscience A Natural Law Based Approach to Freedom of Conscience
… play in this interaction from the perspective of natural law by exploring the proper domain and orientation of each sphere of authority. It will then demonstrate how the application of natural law principles offers a practical solution to the fraught issue of conscientious objection in a medical …
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En Route To Communicative Praxis: Understanding Natural Law and Several Communicative Implications
… discussions that integrate explicit knowledge of natural law as a precursor for conversations regarding communication ethics. Taking a hermeneutical approach of returning to a text [book, person, place, etc.] with different questions develops new insights for identifying obstacles to …
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Natural law and religion in the thought of Samuel Pufendorf (1632-1694)
The emergence of natural law in seventeenth-century Europe was a response to decades of continuous "Warre" inspired by religious differences. The natural jurists of the seventeenth century (Grotius, Hobbes, and Pufendorf) all sought a remedy for the condition of war in independent sovereign states. …
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Fulfilling the Image of God: A Biblical Framework for a Christocentric Natural Law Theory and Human Flourishing
… description of the relationship between the natural law and humanity’s status as image bearers of God? In this dissertation, I contend that the imago Dei and the natural law hold a complementary and interdependent relationship, as both are grounded in humanity’s telos and reinforce each …
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Natural Law, the Object of the Act, and Double Effect: Moral Methodology for Catholic Health Care Ethics
… explains the systematic connection between Natural Law, the Moral Object of the Act, and the Principle of Double Effect and by extension the ethical Principle of Cooperation. Second, the thesis applies this complex moral method of official teaching to health care ethics.</p> <p>Following the …
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Natural Law Theory Under the Sun How Iranian Political Thought Viewed Tyranny as Opposed to The West
… aims to explore and unravel the theory of natural law within its Greek context and its influence on political thought, particularly addressing the need to counteract the damages of tyranny and the cyclical succession of regimes, as articulated by Plato. This study reveals that the concept …
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Tyranny on trial : the politics of natural law and legal positivism in the Federal Republic of Germany
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Political Science, 1997.
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‘Handmaides to the Knowledge of Lawes’: Classical Scholarship and Natural Law as Sources of Legal Theory in the Age of Edward Coke
… proposes that works of classical scholarship and natural law were employed as sources of legal theory by prominent common law jurists in the age of Edward Coke, identified as approximately 1580–1640, where native common law theory and structure were lacking. It examines the ways in which, and …
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The foundation of human rights according to Roman Catholic Church natural law in comparison with the UN Declaration of Human Rights and the African Charter
The principal objective of this research paper is to explore the foundation of human rights according to the Social Teachings of the Roman Catholic Church, the UN Declaration of human rights and the African Charter. However, the African Charter reflects the carbon copy of the UN Declaration and …
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Confronting First Nations Cultural Genocide: Showcasing Perspective of Cree Elders for Identity and Leadership Renewal
… study applied a Lockean theory to the attack on Natural Law to explain the genocide. The study also explained the way Locke's ideas may have contributed to the earlier federal policies that have subordinated the Cree, and to the subordination of Cree Natural law. This ethnographic study limited …
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Philosophy in Early Medieval Ireland: Nature, Hierachy and Inspiration
… influence of Isidore’s parallel conceptions of natural law and natural language on the way that secular political hierarchies were conceived in early Irish literature. Chapter 2 shows that, in early Irish literature, natural law does not generally mean the vestigial capacity for ethics that …
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Thomistic feminism.
… In chapter four, I argue that a traditional natural law sexual morality as developed by Aquinas provides no moral basis for our gendered experience of erotic love. In chapter five, I argue that law and custom in Aquinas are cultural modes of promulgating the natural law; where these are …
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The Grounding Of Effective Aristotelian Law
… by articulating the grounding of effective law. The grounding of law is the reason for which law’s efficacy can be explained. Two popular contenders for this explanation are natural law theory and legal positivism; however, this paper will build off the work of Donald Schroeder to show that …
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Comparing Hobbes's Gratitude and Aristotle's Magnanimity
Hobbes's natural law of gratitude needs to be brought back into perspective when reading his political works. Often when reading Hobbes, many use his depiction of human nature and natural rights to demonstrate the innate propensity toward unsociability. However, contrary to this presumption, Hobbes …
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The problem with harmony : constructs of proportionality, music and the Modulor in the 1950's
… these systems based on preconceived notions of natural law. This study explores the particular contexts in which the idea of harmony was discussed and practiced through the 1950's relative to architecture and music as a reflection of natural law that, by the early 20th century, had been …
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