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Friday, March 18, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Ressourcement and Development

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F INNIS THINKS THAT THE RATIONALISTS such as Samuel Clark made themselves easy targets for Hume's criticism, a criticism which deftly po...
Thursday, March 17, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: Hume's on Our Side?

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A N ENTIRE SECTION OF CHAPTER 2 of the First Part of John Finnis's Natural Law and Natural Rights is devoted to Hume's "natura...
Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Natural Law's Modern Cousin Germain: You Gotta Hand it to Hume

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J OHN FINNIS ADDRESSES THE STANDARD objection against natural law theories, Humean in origin at least in ascription, that natural law bases ...
Wednesday, October 27, 2010

Contra Consequentialismum: Skeptical of Skepticism

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S KEPTICISM ABOUT THE OBJECTIVE NATURE of good and evil, right and wrong--moral skepticism--runs rampant in the Western world. Advance the n...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Jacques Maritain and Natural Law: Natural Law, Analogically Speaking

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“T HE CONCEPT OF LAW," MARITAIN OBSERVES, "is an analogous concept." Its analogous characteristic relates to the great chain ...
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Sunni Islam and the Natural Law: Natural Law Thought in Abu Bakr al-Jassas

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CAN NATURE PROVIDE STANDARDS that are binding upon men, that are part of the Sharīʿa ? Can reason [ ʿaql ( عقل ‎)] be the basis for knowing...
Monday, June 15, 2009

Ecstasis and Telos: David Hume and "Feelings, Nothing More than Feelings . . . "

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DAVID HUME, THE "GREAT INFIDEL," presents a formidable and corpulent foe to the proponent of a Natural Law theory. Considered par...