Natural Law and Justice

by Lloyd Weinreb

Book Overview

"Human beings are a part of nature and apart from it." The argument of Natural Law and Justice is that the philosophy of natural law and contemporary theories about the nature of justice are both efforts to make sense of the fundamental paradox of human experience: individual freedom and responsibility in a causally determined universe.Professor Weinreb restores the original understanding of natural law as a philosophy about the place of humankind...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674604253
• ISBN13: 9780674604254
• Release Date: September 1987
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.