Drawing upon the timeless wisdom of Thomas Aquinas, The Natural Law offers clear insights into perplexing ethical dilemmas. The compelling conclusions of Aquinas emerge through a critical examination of contemporary ethical frameworks including moral relativism, utilitarianism, and Machiavellian politics. In part one, which elucidates the core ......
Sharing stories and advice rooted in the science of evolutionary psychology, father and son authors Doug Kenrick and David Lundberg-Kendrick pinpoint the dangers of stone-age problem solving for our lives today, and present a new, systematic way to survive and be happy in the modern world. Over millennia, we humans have evolved a set of ......
In Rogue Justice, Israeli-American attorney Yonatan Green provides indispensable critical insight into the heavily disputed state of the Israeli legal system, and into the controversial process by which the Israeli Supreme Court gradually attained judicial supremacy. Through exploration and discussion of key judicial decisions and novel doctrines ......
"Mythologies," writes veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar, "are structures of words and images that portray people, institutions, and events in ways that mask an underlying reality."
Talking about political philosophy, this book explores the essentials of good government; compares and contrasts despotism, monarchy, and democracy; and discusses the factors that lead to corruption of governments. It also considers many other topics such as education of the citizenry, crime and punishment, and abuse of power and of liberty.
The predominant understanding of St. Thomas's account of the natural law to date has been that it is basically philosophical in character. In Thomas Aquinas's Cruciform Theology of the Natural Law, Kevin E. O'Reilly, OP, argues that Thomas's construal of the natural law is, on the contrary, thoroughly theological in its inspiration. In order to ......
Fictions, Lies, and the Authority of Law discusses legal, political, and cultural difficulties that arise from the crisis of authority in the modern world. Is there any connection linking some of the maladies of modern life-"cancel culture," the climate of mendacity in public and academic life, fierce conflicts over the Constitution, disputes ......
Challenging the prevailing understanding of the authority of law, Daniel Mark offers a theory of moral obligation that is rooted both in command and in the law's orientation to the common good. When and why do we have an obligation to obey the law? Prevailing theories in the philosophy of law, starting with the work of H. L. A. Hart and Joseph ......
Thomistic Juridical Realism and the Elements of Law's Ontology
This is a book about the nature of the reality or the phenomenon referred to as "law" by lawyers and legal officials, but also by members of communities living under law, to the extent that they conceptualize the realm of "law" as something sufficiently distinguishable from other different or broader realities and phenomena. The book belongs to ......
