Author | Crowe, Michael Bertram. author |
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Title | The Changing Profile of the Natural Law [electronic resource] / by Michael Bertram Crowe |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1977 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-0913-8 |
Descript | 321 p. 3 illus. online resource |
I. Beginnings -- A. The Pre-Socratics -- B. The Sophists and Socrates -- C. Plato -- D. Aristotle -- II. The Profile Emerges -- A. The Stoics -- B. Cicero -- C. The Roman Jurisconsults -- D. The Special Case of Ulpian -- III. The Christian Face of the Natural Law -- A. St. Paul and the New Testament -- B. The Church Fathers -- C. St. Augustine -- D. St. Isidore of Seville -- IV. Medieval Canonists and Civilians -- A. Gratian -- B. The Medieval Civilians -- C. The Decretists -- V. Fresh Lineaments of the Natural Law -- A. Some Early Scholastic Theologians -- B. The Franciscan School โ and Albert the Great -- C. Scholastic Terminology: synderesis and Conscience -- VI. Aquinas Faces the Natural Law Tradition -- A. Aquinas on synderesis -- B. Aquinas and the Definitions of the Natural Law -- C. Natural Law and the Principles of Morality -- VII. Aquinas Makes Up His Mind -- A. The Notion of Law -- B. The Eternal Law -- C. The Natural Law and Its Precepts -- D. Primary and Secondary Precepts of the Natural Law -- E. The Variability of the Natural Law -- VIII. The Breaking of the Profile and its Re-making -- A. Moderate Nominalism: Scotus -- B. Nominalist Developments: William of Ockham, Gregory of Rimini -- C. The Reformation and the Scholastic Silver Age -- IX. The False Face of the Natural Law -- A. Hugo Grotius and the โImpious Hypothesisโ -- B. Natural Law in the Age of Reason -- C. Another Face of Natural Law: Human Rights -- X. Natural Law: A Twentieth-Century Profile? -- A. Natural Law Emerging from Eclipse -- B. Re-shaping the Features of Thomistic Natural Law -- C. Areas of discussion -- D. A Rehabilitated Natural Law? -- Name Index