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Lex Naturalis, Ius Naturalis: Law as Positive Reasoning & Natural Rationality by Eric Engle, Donna M Lyons, Jacob D Zilhardt, Aron Ping D'Souza is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Lex Naturalis presents a unique theory of law. The work is structured as a series of interrelated essays which, taken together, constitute a new theory of law. The work argues: First, that positive law and natural law are complementary, not competing. Second, that normative inference (is-to-ought) can be a logically valid form or reasoning. Thus, the work presents resolutions to the two leading questions of contemporary legal theory. This book also provides a dialectical synthesis of competing ontological, epistemological and axiological theories. Breaking both from Catholic natural law neo-platonic idealism and from international relations theory realism (nominalism), the work argues for a monist (not dualist), materialist (not idealist), cognitivist (not relativist) and wholist (not atomist) view. Thus the work combines the best aspects of both Catholic neoplatonism (moral cognitivism, wholism) and the best of nominalism (materialism) to present a powerful scientific theory of law which sees positive law and natural law as complementary (some laws are natural, such as the prohibition of murder, others are positive such as parking regulations). Finally, the work argues that log

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Author

Eric Engle, Donna M Lyons, Jacob D Zilhardt, Aron Ping D'Souza

Publisher

The Elias Clark Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780980731842

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Law, Legal Theory & Philosophy