Natural Law and Human Nature

by Joseph Koterski

Streaming video, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

171.2

Collection

Publication

The Great Courses (2002), 12 hours, 24 lectures

Description

Presents 24 lectures dealing with both philosophical and historical considerations for the idea of a natural moral law and its basis in our common human nature.

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

7.4 inches

Local notes

[1] Philosophical approach [2] General nature of ethics [3] Law, nature, natural law [4] Principles of natural law theory [5] Greek ideas of nature and justice [6] Aristotle's clarification of'nature' [7] Aristotle on justice and politics [8] Stoic idea of natural law [9] Biblical views of nature and law [10] Early Christians, nature and law [11] Roman, canon and natural law [12] Thomistic synthesis [13] Late medieval and early modern views [14] Hobbes and Locke [15] Natural law and founding fathers [16] Descartes, Rousseau, and Kant [17] Can rights exist without natural law? [18] Question of evolution [19] Paradox of cultural relativism [20] Problem of God [21] Current applications-jurisprudence [22] Current applications-bioethics [23] Current applications-social ethics [24] Eternal return of natural law

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