The Idea and Importance of Natural Law: Fifty Questions and Answers

Author J. Daryl Charles ISBN 9798991983112 Pages 328 For centuries, philosophers, political theorists, jurists, theologians, and other thinkers have proposed, discussed, debated the idea of natural law. Proceeding from an assumption of a shared nature in all human beings, irrespective of culture or location, natural law proponents contend that based on human intuition and reasoning, there is a universal knowledge of the shared nature. In a detailed but easy-to-follow format natural law proponent J. Daryl Charles presents 50 questions and answers regarding the idea of natural law. Discussions include: How is natural law defined? Where do we find evidence of the natural law? Why is the natural law important? What is the relationship between the natural law and human rights? What is the relationship between the natural law and world religions? What is the natural law important to politics? What are the standard objections to the natural law? Each question and answer is present