Rethinking Natural Law

• Main Author: Ferreira da Cunha, Paulo. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Law,
• Subjects: Law.; Philosophy of law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Philosophy of Law.; Political Theory.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32659-2

For centuries, natural law was the main philosophical legal paradigm. Now, it is a wonder when a court of law invokes it. Arthur Kaufmann already underlined a modern general "horror iuris naturalis". We also know, with Winfried Hassemer, that the succession of legal paradigms is a matter o...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. Part I �Foundations: Goethe's Swan
• The contributions of the paradigm "Natural Law"
• Sterility of Natural Law theoricism
• From the side of positivism
• Part II New Visions Old Questions: Contemporary Natural Law dialogues
• What Natural Law is, what it is not
• Legacies and achievements of Iusnaturalism
• Avatars of Natural Law. Natural Law in different colours
• Conclusion.