This Week's Suggested Book
from the Ashbrook Center
(Monday, September 13, 1999)
 | | Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy:
by David F. Forte |
Georgetown University Press
398 pages, January 1998
Hardcover, 65.00
ISBN: 0878406921
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Ashbrook Center.
Prominent thinkers in the natural law tradition apply the principles of natural law to contemporary political and social problems in this volume, the first to explore the practical uses of this philosophy. Contributors demonstrate how natural law can be used to resolve a wide range of complex social, political, and constitutional issues by addressing controversial subjects that include the family, taxation, war, racial discrimination, medical technology, and sexuality. Revealing the wide impact of the natural law revival, this volume brings together authors from across the political spectrum. It also includes a critique of the natural law position by a respected commentator. Natural Law and Contemporary Public Policy will be of value to those working in philosophy, political science, and legal theory, as well as to policy analysts, legislators, judges, and everyone seeking principles to guide them through difficult policy issues.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One
- 1. Natural Law Today
- 2. The Natural Law Moment
- Part Two
- 1. Natural Law and the Individual
- 2. Privacy
- 3. Nature, Morality, and Homosexuality
- 4. Bioethics and Human Life
- 5. Education: Nature, Nurture, and Gnosis
- 6. Family, Nurture, and Liberty
- Part Three
- 1. Natural Law and the Government
- 2. The Axioms of Public Policy
- 3. Legislation
- 4. Judicial Review
- Part Four
- 1. Natural Law and the Economy
- 2. Property, the Common Law, and John Locke
- 3. Taxation
- 4. Welfare
- 5. Tort Reform
- Part Five
- 1. Natural Law and Foreign Policy
- 2. Just War and Defense Policy
- Part Six
- 1. Doubts and Affirmations
- 2. Questions About the Place of Natural Law
- 3. The Natural Law Banner
- 4. Contributors
- Index
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