Contemporary Natural
Title | Contemporary Natural PDF eBook |
Author | Phyllis Richardson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 192 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 9780500510926 |
A photographic style book features the living areas of artists that are comprised of natural materials and organic forms, from a sculptor's Manhattan loft apartment in a former button factory to a Russian artist's Normandy barn conversion. 12,000 first printing.
Living in Nature
Title | Living in Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Phaidon Phaidon Editors |
Publisher | Phaidon Press |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2021-03-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781838662509 |
An awe-inspiring collection of contemporary homes designed to foster a connection with the essential elements of landscape Living in Nature showcases a selection of architect-designed houses that have something fundamental in common: a special relationship with the natural world. Each of the book's 50 homes is carefully chosen for its stunning location, whether cocooned within the earth itself or soaring high amongst treetops, surrounded by cooling waters, or resisting the desert heat. With a wealth of photographs showcasing each house inside and out, Living in Nature offers inspiration -- and tranquillity.
Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law
Title | Contemporary Perspectives on Natural Law PDF eBook |
Author | Dr Ana Marta González |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Pages | 338 |
Release | 2012-10-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1409485668 |
Resorting to natural law is one way of conveying the philosophical conviction that moral norms are not merely conventional rules. Accordingly, the notion of natural law has a clear metaphysical dimension, since it involves the recognition that human beings do not conceive themselves as sheer products of society and history. And yet, if natural law is to be considered the fundamental law of practical reason, it must show also some intrinsic relationship to history and positive law. The essays in this book examine this tension between the metaphysical and the practical and how the philosophical elaboration of natural law presents this notion as a "limiting-concept", between metaphysics and ethics, between the mutable and the immutable; between is and ought, and, in connection with the latter, even the tension between politics and eschatology as a double horizon of ethics. This book, contributed to by scholars from Europe and America, is a major contribution to the renewed interest in natural law. It provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of natural law, both from a historical and a systematic point of view. It ranges from the mediaeval synthesis of Aquinas through the early modern elaborations of natural law, up to current discussions on the very possibility and practical relevance of natural law theory for the contemporary mind.
Natural Moral Law in Contemporary Society
Title | Natural Moral Law in Contemporary Society PDF eBook |
Author | Holger Zaborowski |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2010-08 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0813217865 |
The essays of this volume examine natural moral law, different natural law theories, and the role that natural law can and should play in our contemporary society
Nature
Title | Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Kastner |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Aesthetics |
ISBN | 9780262517669 |
This anthology considers how the rise of transdisciplinary practices in the post-war era allowed for new kinds of artistic engagement with nature. It provides an overview of the eclectic scientific and philosophical sources that inform contemporary art's investigations of nature.
St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition
Title | St. Thomas Aquinas and the Natural Law Tradition PDF eBook |
Author | John Goyette |
Publisher | CUA Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2004-09 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 0813213991 |
To explore and evaluate the current revival, this volume brings together many of the foremost scholars on natural law. They examine the relation between Thomistic natural law and the larger philosophical and theological tradition. Furthermore, they assess the contemporary relevance of St. Thomas's natural law doctrine to current legal and political philosophy.
Natural Law Theory
Title | Natural Law Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Angier |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 2021-09-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1108586392 |
In Section 1, I outline the history of natural law theory, covering Plato, Aristotle, the Stoics and Aquinas. In Section 2, I explore two alternative traditions of natural law, and explain why these constitute rivals to the Aristotelian tradition. In Section 3, I go on to elaborate a via negativa along which natural law norms can be discovered. On this basis, I unpack what I call three 'experiments in being', each of which illustrates the cogency of this method. In Section 4, I investigate and rebut two seminal challenges to natural law methodology, namely, the fact/value distinction in metaethics and Darwinian evolutionary biology. In Section 5, I then outline and criticise the 'new' natural law theory, which is an attempt to revise natural law thought in light of the two challenges above. I conclude, in Section 6, with a summary and some reflections on the prospects for natural law theory.