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Narrative, Nature, and the Natural Law : From Aquinas to International Human Rights by C Fred Alford; Palgrave Macmillan (2001-2015) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Beginning with Saint Thomas Aquinas and ending with the latest developments in international human rights, Narrative, Nature, and the Natural Law: From Aquinas to International Human Rights brings a fairly traditional interpretation of the natural law to some rather untraditional problems and areas, including evolutionary natural law. The term “traditional interpretation” refers not to the religious or ideological perspective of the book, but rather to the view that natural law is “written on the heart.”  Untraditional is the way the book uses narrative theory to put feelings into words, and words into feelings.  In other words, stories, rather than argument, become the basic unit of the natural law. Review "A fresh and thoughtful exploration of the concept of human rights in light of natural law theory. Using the UN Declaration of 1948 as a baseline, Alford shows why human rights are a vitally important dimension of twentieth century political thinking. He makes a deft and probing use of Jacques Maritain’s approach to natural law through connaturality and argues that such an approach is superior to the alternatives found in the new natural law thinking or biological approaches

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Author

C Fred Alford; Palgrave Macmillan (2001-2015)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan US

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780230106727

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Philosophy, Science

Updated

2026-03-24