pt.1. The concept of natural law -- Natural law as a limiting concept: a reading of Thomas Aquinas. pt.2. Historical studies -- Natural law and the human city -- The formal fundament of natural law in the Golden Age: the case of V́ázquez and Suárez -- Natural law without metaphysics: a protestant tradition -- Natural law and obligation in Hutcheson and Kant -- Spontaneity and the law of nature: Leibniz and pre-critical Kant -- Kant's conception of natural right -- The right of freedom regarding nature in Hegel's Philosophy of Right. pt.3. Controversial issues about natural law -- Natural law and practical philosophy: the presence of a theological concept in moral knowledge -- First principles and practical philosophy -- The relativity of goodness: a prolegomenon to a rapprochement between virtue ethics and natural law theory -- Does the naturalistic fallacy reach natural law? -- Human universality and natural law. pt.4. Natural law and science -- Difficulties for natural law based on modern conceptions of nature -- Evolution, semiosis and ethics: rethinking the context of natural law -- Teleology: inorganic and organic -- The unrelinquishability of teleology.
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