Natural Law: The Scientific Ways of Treating Natural Law, Its Place in Moral Philosophy, and Its Relation to the Positive Sciences

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

One of the central problems in the history of moral and political philosophy since antiquity has been to explain how human society and its civil institutions came into being. In attempting to solve this problem philosophers developed the idea of natural law, which for many centuries was used to describe the system of fundamental, rational principles presumed universally to govern human behavior in society. By the eighteenth century the doctrine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812210832
• ISBN13: 9780812210835
• Release Date: October 1975
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"