Giambattista Vico on Natural Law - John Schaeffer

Giambattista Vico on Natural Law

Rhetoric, Religion and Sensus Communis

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
132 Seiten
2019
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-19106-1 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
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 façade 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 than on Greek or Enlightenment philosophy. Specifically, the book addresses how Vico, drawing his inspiration from Roman history, incorporated both rhetoric and religion into a dynamic concept of natural law grounded in what he called the sensus communis: the entire repertoire of values, images, institutions, and even prejudices that a community takes for granted. Vico denied that natural law could ever furnish a definitive answer to moral problems in the social/public sphere. Rather he maintained that such problems had to be debated in the wider arena of the sensus communis. For Vico, as this book argues, natural law principles emerged from these debates; they did not resolve them.

John Schaeffer is Emeritus Professor of English at Northern Illinois, US

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

INTRODUCTION






EXCAVATING ROMAN LEGAL HISTORY
CHAPTER ONE: VICO’S LEGAL MILIEU

CHAPTER TWO: VICO’S UNIVERSAL LAW: RELIGION, RHETORIC AND THE ROMAN PARADIGM

CHAPTER THREE: NATURAL LAW IN THE FIRST NEW SCIENCE

CHAPTER FOUR: NATURAL LAW LAND THE REVISED NEW SCIENCE

CHAPTER FIVE: REPRISE: THE SENSES OF THE SENSUS COMMUNIS




NATURAL LAW AND SENSUS COMMUNIS

CHAPTER SIX: THE ARISTOTELIAN-THOMIST TRADITION

CHAPTER SEVEN: VICO’S PLACE IN THE NATURAL LAW TRADITION

CHAPTER EIGHT: CONCLUSION: NATURAL LAW IN THE BARBARISM OF REFLECTION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10 0-367-19106-7 / 0367191067
ISBN-13 978-0-367-19106-1 / 9780367191061
Zustand Neuware
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