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Spectrum book volume S-36
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Eminent Princeton Philosopher Paul Ramsey looks at the lives and ideas of nine famous Moralists of the modern age.
The featured philosophers are - Paul Tillich, Karl Marx, H. Richard Niebuhr, Fyodor Dostoevski, Reinhold Niebuhr, Jacques Maritain, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emil Brunner and Edmond Cahn.
"The greatness of the men whose insight and reflections are the subject of the following chapters is obviously a sufficient justification for this volume....
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DOES THE GOVERNMENT EXIST TO SERVE US OR TO MASTER US?
If the government exists to serve us, and if freedom is part of our humanity, how can the government take freedom from us? Is human freedom in America a myth, or is it reality? The United States of America was born out of a bloody revolt against tyranny. Yet almost from its inception, the government here has suppressed liberty. Within the pages of It Is Dangerous To Be Right When The Government...
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Si bien el interés por la consideración moral que corresponde a los animales es tan antiguo como la especulación filosófica en Occidente, a partir de los años sesenta y setenta del siglo pasado el mismo ha crecido exponencialmente. Este libro presenta una muestra de la producción teórica desarrollada en este campo desde la filosofía moral liberal, la teoría política, el derecho, los estudios críticos y los feminismos, en un repaso de las...
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This may be the most Important Opinion Letter -- about, A Woman's Right to Choice -- in America's History.
This "Unprintable" A Woman's Right to Choice letter can Scientifically Prove: That, Life begins at birth.
This "Unprintable" opinion letter can also Legally Prove: A Woman's Right to Choice -- over her Own Body. A Woman's Legal Right to have -- a Legal Abortion. If, She Chooses -- to have one. (If, you don't like Abortions -- don't...
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To Secure These Rights enters the fascinating--and often contentious--debate over constitutional interpretation. Scott Douglas Gerber here argues that the Constitution of the United States should be interpreted in light of the natural rights political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and that the Supreme Court is the institution of American government that should be primarily responsible for identifying and applying that philosophy in...
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A panoramic history of rules in the Western world. Rules order almost every aspect of our lives. They set our work hours, dictate how we drive and set the table, tell us whether to offer an extended hand or cheek in greeting, and organize the rites of life, from birth through death. We may chafe under the rules we have, and yearn for ones we don’t, yet no culture could do without them. In Rules, historian Lorraine Daston traces their development...
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El ser humano ha olvidado quién es, el Derecho que tiene sobre su cuerpo y el planeta Tierra. Ha olvidado que el universo es prosperidad y abundancia y que es heredero de todo. He vivido bajo esclavitud consentida, aceptando tiranos, amos y líderes que le digan lo que puede o no puede hacer, y cree que es reo de las circunstancias, en vez de dueño de su destino. Ahora puede conocer quién es y el derecho que tiene sobre su propia criatura y sobre...
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Addressed to the common reader as well as specialists in law, this book ties the already recognized framework for constitutional construction, that of political theory, together with human psychology.
It presents a model that systemizes the forces that act upon us, both individually and en masse; it explains why some will embrace a system of principled law while others will prefer a system of arbitrary law; and it explores the qualitative difference...
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La déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme a 70 ans. Et pourtant, chaque jour dans le monde, ses principes sont bafoués : guerres, tortures, famine, misère, exclusion, discriminations... Auxquelles s'ajoutent les problèmes liés à l'environnement et aux réseaux sociaux. Alors que certains dénoncent le "droit-de-l'hommisme" et ses dérives supposées (individualisme, ingérence), l'avocat Guy Aurenche, qui a participé à des procès emblématiques...
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This book addresses the old question of natural law in its contemporary context. David VanDrunen draws on both his Reformed theological heritage and the broader Christian natural law tradition to develop a constructive theology of natural law through a thorough study of Scripture.
The biblical covenants organize VanDrunen's study. Part 1 addresses the covenant of creation and the covenant with Noah, exploring how these covenants provide a foundation...
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Half a century after world leaders signed the UN drug convention and committed to the eradication of illicit drugs, it has become obvious that prohibition did not turn out as planned. Not only have the drug laws failed to deliver us from the problems associated with drug use, but as the disastrous consequences of the drug war have become more apparent, the problematic relationship to human rights law becomes more obvious.
This book spells out these...
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First published around 1573, and known as the "earliest; most trustworthy account" of the Reformation in England. Contains a variety documentation that defies description, like the revelation that proposes Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII's second "wife," was actually his illegitimate daughter. Later finished by Fr. Rishton, the whole ghastly story of the Protestant revolt in England-with all its unsavory characters-is told through 1587 and the murder of Mary...
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An exploration of natural law for an era of deep division: Burgess lays out the long struggle to protect human rights for all citizens.
Dr. King's famous words-"The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice"-rest on the thinking and policy of philosophers and legislators from ancient Greece to the present day.
Douglas R. Burgess Jr.-a broadly published writer and professor of legal history-tells us that important story, from...
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Can a person truly be 'trapped' in the wrong body? Can modern medicine really 'reassign' sex? What should our law say on these issues? Anderson offers a balanced approach to the policy issues, a nuanced vision of human embodiment, and a sober and honest survey of the human costs of getting human nature wrong. In doing so, he examines the grim contrast between the media's sunny depiction and the often sad realities of gender-identity struggles. He...
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In Search of the Common Good: Guideposts for Concerned Citizens is a sequel to the author's book Citizens of the Broken Compass: Ethical and Religious Disorientation in the Age of Technology. As the title indicates, the work is not, addressed to an academic audience, but rather to a general readership, i.e. to concerned citizens who are interested in thinking through some of the ethical and moral issues facing us today. Still, the book is not a work...
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The best contemporary English-language resource on pursuing a universal ethics
In this volume, twenty-three major scholars comment on and critically evaluate In Search of a Universal Ethic, the 2009 document written by the International Theological Commission (ITC) of the Catholic Church. That historic document represents an official Church contribution both to a more adequate understanding of a universal ethic and to Catholicism's own tradition...
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Edmund Burke claimed to be a practical politician, rather than a theorist. Nevertheless, says the author, Burke held consistent political principles which form a coherent political theory. By examining concepts such as natural laws, natural society, civil society, and history in Burke's speeches and writings, the author comes to some conclusions about Burke's political theory and its relation to commonly accepted eighteenth-century political doctrines....
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Legal Naturalism advances a clear and convincing case that Marx's theory of law is a form of natural law jurisprudence. It explicates both Marx's writings and the idea of natural law, and makes a forceful contribution to current debates on the foundations of law. Olufemi Taiwo argues that embedded in the corpus of Marxist writing is a plausible, adequate, and coherent legal theory. He describes Marx's general concept of law, which he calls "legal...
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Americans have been forced from their homes. Their jobs have been outsourced, their neighborhoods torn down to make room for freeways, their churches shuttered or taken over by social justice warriors, and their very families eviscerated by government programs that assume their functions and a hostile elite that deems them oppressive. Conservatives have always defended these elements of a rooted life as crucial to maintaining cultural continuity in...
