Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason

by Pierre Manent

Book Overview

This first English translation of Pierre Manent's profound and strikingly original book La loi naturelle et les droits de l'homme is a reflection on the central question of the Western political tradition. In six chapters, developed from the prestigious ?tienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent contemplates the steady displacement of the natural law by the modern conception of human rights...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026810722X
• ISBN13: 9780268107222
• Release Date: February 2021
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"