Giambattista Vico on Natural Law: Rhetoric, Religion and Sensus Communis

by John Schaeffer

Book Overview

This book introduces the thought of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) into the discussion about natural law. For many critics, natural law is not natural but a fa?ade behind which lurks the supernatural - that is, revealed religion. While current notions of natural law are based on either Aristotelian/Thomistic principles or on Enlightenment rationalism, the book shows how Vico was the only natural law thinker to draw on the Roman legal tradition, rather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367191067
• ISBN13: 9780367191061
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 132 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"