Natural law and human rights : toward a recovery of practical reason
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Natural law and human rights : toward a recovery of practical reason
（Catholic ideas for a secular world）
University of Notre Dame Press, c2020
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La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme
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Includes index
Summary: "Pierre Manent is one of France's leading political philosophers. This first English translation of his profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious Étienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the natural law by the modern conception of human rights. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political order that is fully compatible with liberty rightly understood. Manent boldly confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated the classical and (especially) Christian notion of "liberty under law" and in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate obligations from a condition of what Locke..."
"This first English translation of his profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme is a ..." -- On backcover
Contents of Works
- Why Natural Law Matters
- Counsels of Fear
- The Order of the State without Right or Law
- The Law, Slave to Rights
- The Individual and the Agent
- Natural Law and Human Motives