Anthropocentric Natural Law
Anthropocentric Natural Law
This chapter surveys how modern thinkers, bracketing biblical resources, have sought to account for natural law in terms of the resources internal to the human person. After discussion of teleological and theocentric natural law doctrine as found in Cicero and Augustine, the chapter examines in detail the positions of the central moral philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche. It argues that the path is one of the increasing reduction of the human person.
Keywords: Cicero, Augustine, eternal law, virtue, personified nature, common good, Descartes, Nietzsche, increasing reduction
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