| Description |
12 audio discs (approximately 720 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.). |
| Series |
The great courses |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Performer |
Lecturer: Joseph Koterski, Fordham University. |
| Note |
Compact discs. |
| Summary |
Presents 24 lectures dealing with both philosophical and historical considerations for the idea of a natural moral law and its basis in our common human nature. |
| Contents |
Philosophical approach -- General nature of ethics -- Law, nature, Natural law -- Principles of natural law theory -- Greek ideas of nature and justice -- Aristotle's clarification of'nature' -- Aristotle on justice and politics -- Stoic idea of natural law -- Biblical views of nature and law -- Early christians, nature and law -- Roman, canon and natural law -- Thomistic Synthesis -- Late medieval and early modern views -- Hobbes and Locke -- Natural law and the founding fathers -- Descartes, Rousseau, and Kant -- Can rights exist without natural law? -- Question of evolution -- Paradox of cultural relativism -- Problem of God -- Current applications-jurisprudence -- Current applications-bioethics -- Current applications-social ethics -- Eternal return of natural law. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Natural law.
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Law and ethics.
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Audiobooks collection -- Nonfiction.
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| Added Author |
Teaching Company.
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| ISBN |
1565853512 |
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9781565853515 |
| Music No. |
4453 Teaching Company |
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4451--4452 Teaching Company |
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