Natural Law Liberalism

by Christopher Wolfe

Book Overview

Liberal political philosophy and natural law theory are not contradictory, but - properly understood - mutually reinforcing. Contemporary liberalism (as represented by Rawls, Guttman and Thompson, Dworkin, Raz, and Macedo) rejects natural law and seeks to diminish its historical contribution to the liberal political tradition, but it is only one, defective variant of liberalism. A careful analysis of the history of liberalism, identifying its core...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521140609
• ISBN13: 9780521140607
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"