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- Book Title
- Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reas
- ISBN
- 9780268107215
- Subject Area
- Law, Political Science, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Natural Law and Human Rights : Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
- Publisher
- University of Notre Dame Press
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Subject
- Natural Law, Human Rights, General, Political
- Publication Year
- 2020
- Series
- Catholic Ideas for a Secular World Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4 in
- Item Weight
- 11.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 5.5 in
- Number of Pages
- 277 Pages
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Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
ISBN-10
0268107211
ISBN-13
9780268107215
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21038301656
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
277 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Natural Law and Human Rights : Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason
Publication Year
2020
Subject
Natural Law, Human Rights, General, Political
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Political Science, Philosophy
Series
Catholic Ideas for a Secular World Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.4 in
Item Weight
11.3 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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Scholarly & Professional
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2019-054504
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"It takes a bold man to offer public criticism of the idea of 'human rights.' . . . The western world is blessed to have such a man--bold, profound, and prudent--in Pierre Manent. All of these virtues are displayed in his excellent new book, Natural Law and Human Rights . . . . The book is rich in insight, the fruit of Manent's decades of deep meditation on the history of political philosophy and on the intellectual, moral, and political predicament of the modern world." -- Public Discourse, "Pierre Manent's book is a compact feast. Once properly digested, his thesis is original and electrifying." --Patrick Deneen, author of Why Liberalism Failed, "In Natural Law and Human Rights , the French philosopher Pierre Manent provides a searching critique of the doctrines, policies, and practices of 'human rights' prevailing today. To interpret or replace them, he proposes the original natural law that is always available to anyone who ponders the basic human experiences. That law, knowable and accessible in our time, is our guide to live for the best." --Harvey C. Mansfield, Kenan Professor of Government, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, "In Natural Law and Human Rights, the French philosopher Pierre Manent provides a searching critique of the doctrines, policies, and practices of 'human rights' prevailing today. To interpret or replace them, he proposes the original natural law that is always available to anyone who ponders the basic human experiences. That law, knowable and accessible in our time, is our guide to live for the best." --Harvey C. Mansfield, Kenan Professor of Government, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, Pierre Manent takes on the now-daring task of rehabilitating classical natural law, and does so with what might be described as Gallic verve., "In a remarkable book titled Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason, Manent responds to Montaigne's challenge. Here Manent persuasively defends the enduring relevance of the old cardinal virtues-courage, justice, prudence, and moderation-and of a conception of non-arbitrary conscience that can provide practical reason with rich moral content." -The New Criterion "[Manent] details the need for our discourse on human rights to be reintegrated into what he calls an 'archic' understanding of human and political existence. Only by seeing rights as rooted in duties and by seeing them in light of the the natural moral law can we be both intellectually sound in our practical reasoning and well-grounded in our claims about human rights." -International Philosophical Quarterly "It takes a bold man to offer public criticism of the idea of 'human rights.' . . . The western world is blessed to have such a man-bold, profound, and prudent-in Pierre Manent. All of these virtues are displayed in his excellent new book, Natural Law and Human Rights. . . . The book is rich in insight, the fruit of Manent's decades of deep meditation on the history of political philosophy and on the intellectual, moral, and political predicament of the modern world." -Public Discourse "Manent's prescient critique of human rights may be the best tool at our disposal to interpret the weaknesses that COVID-19 has revealed. The modern politics of human rights is too individualistic, too theoretical, and too technical, Manent warns, all faults that poison our ability to deliberate the natural ends of man and make a real choices, take real actions." -The American Mind "This is a bold book, and Patrick Deneen's back-cover blurb of this book as a 'compact feast' may undersell it. This book is a treasure chest, for in a little more than 100 pages Manent lavishly offers gems of insight. His greatest jewel of wisdom is that modern man cannot win his fight against the natural law, for it is still part of him, deny it though he may." -The Federalist "Why is the 'critique of modernity' such a ubiquitous genre? . . . Natural Law and Human Rights, the new book by formidable French political theorist Pierre Manent, provides another framework for understanding the proliferation of these critiques of modernity." -The Hedgehog Review "Pierre Manent takes on the now-daring task of rehabilitating classical natural law and does so with what might be described as Gallic verve." -Will Morrisey, author of The Dilemma of Progressivism "Pierre Manent's book is a compact feast. Once properly digested, his thesis is original and electrifying." -Patrick Deneen, author of Why Liberalism Failed "In Natural Law and Human Rights, the French philosopher Pierre Manent provides a searching critique of the doctrines, policies, and practices of 'human rights' prevailing today. To interpret or replace them, he proposes the original natural law that is always available to anyone who ponders the basic human experiences. That law, knowable and accessible in our time, is our guide to live for the best." -Harvey C. Mansfield, Kenan Professor of Government, Harvard University; Senior Fellow, the Hoover Institution, Stanford University "Manent helps us to see the deep chasm that lies between the modern human rights worldview and that of natural law." -The New Bioethics, This is a bold book, and Patrick Deneen's back-cover blurb of this book as a 'compact feast' may undersell it. This book is a treasure chest, for in a little more than 100 pages Manent lavishly offers gems of insight. His greatest jewel of wisdom is that modern man cannot win his fight against the natural law, for it is still part of him, deny it though he may., "It takes a bold man to offer public criticism of the idea of 'human rights.' . . . The western world is blessed to have such a man--bold, profound, and prudent--in Pierre Manent. All of these virtues are displayed in his excellent new book, Natural Law and Human Rights. . . . the book is rich in insight, the fruit of Manent's decades of deep meditation on the history of political philosophy and on the intellectual, moral, and political predicament of the modern world." -- Public Discourse, "It takes a bold man to offer public criticism of the idea of 'human rights.' . . . The western world is blessed to have such a man--bold, profound, and prudent--in Pierre Manent. All of these virtues are displayed in his excellent new book, Natural Law and Human Rights . . . . the book is rich in insight, the fruit of Manent's decades of deep meditation on the history of political philosophy and on the intellectual, moral, and political predicament of the modern world." -- Public Discourse, ""Manent's prescient critique of human rights may be the best tool at our disposal to interpret the weaknesses that COVID-19 has revealed. The modern politics of human rights is too individualistic, too theoretical, and too technical, Manent warns, all faults that poison our ability to deliberate the natural ends of man and make a real choices, take real actions." -- The American Mind, "Manent helps us to see the deep chasm that lies between the modern human rights worldview and that of natural law." --The New Bioethics, "This is a bold book, and Patrick Deneen's back-cover blurb of this book as a 'compact feast' may undersell it. This book is a treasure chest, for in a little more than 100 pages Manent lavishly offers gems of insight. His greatest jewel of wisdom is that modern man cannot win his fight against the natural law, for it is still part of him, deny it though he may." -- The Federalist, "Pierre Manent takes on the now-daring task of rehabilitating classical natural law and does so with what might be described as Gallic verve." --Will Morrisey, author of The Dilemma of Progressivism, "Why is the 'critique of modernity' such a ubiquitous genre? . . . Natural Law and Human Rights , the new book by formidable French political theorist Pierre Manent, provides another framework for understanding the proliferation of these critiques of modernity." -- The Hedgehog Review, "Manent's prescient critique of human rights may be the best tool at our disposal to interpret the weaknesses that COVID-19 has revealed. The modern politics of human rights is too individualistic, too theoretical, and too technical, Manent warns, all faults that poison our ability to deliberate the natural ends of man and make a real choices, take real actions." -- The American Mind, Pierre Manent's short book is a compact feast. Once properly digested, his thesis is original and electrifying. His reflections on the crisis of modernity wrought by the abandonment of a properly governing natural law explain the anti-humanism of our age. Most constructively, he argues that only through a reconstitution of natural law might there come about a restoration of politics against the anti-political technocracy of modern liberalism., "In a remarkable book titled Natural Law and Human Rights: Toward a Recovery of Practical Reason , Manent responds to Montaigne's challenge. Here Manent persuasively defends the enduring relevance of the old cardinal virtues--courage, justice, prudence, and moderation--and of a conception of non-arbitrary conscience that can provide practical reason with rich moral content." -- The New Criterion, "[Manent] details the need for our discourse on human rights to be reintegrated into what he calls an 'archic' understanding of human and political existence. Only by seeing rights as rooted in duties and by seeing them in light of the the natural moral law can we be both intellectually sound in our practical reasoning and well-grounded in our claims about human rights." -- International Philosophical Quarterly
Table Of Content
1. Why Natural Law Matters 2. Counsels of Fear 3. The Order of the State without Right or Law 4. The Law, Slave to Rights 5. The Individual and the Agent 6. Natural Law and Human Motives Appendix: Recovering Law's Intelligence
Synopsis
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 Etienne Gilson lectures at the Institut Catholique de Paris, and in a related appendix, Manent ......, Pierre Manent is one of France's leading political philosophers. This first English translation of his 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. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political order that is fully compatible with liberty rightly understood. Manent boldly confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated the classical and (especially) Christian notion of "liberty under law" and in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate obligations from a condition of what Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau call the "state of nature," where human beings are absolutely free, with no obligations to others. In his view, our ever-more-imperial affirmation of human rights needs to be reintegrated into what he calls an "archic" understanding of human and political existence, where law and obligation are inherent in liberty and meaningful human action. Otherwise we are bound to act thoughtlessly in an increasingly arbitrary or willful manner. Natural Law and Human Rights will engage students and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion, and will captivate sophisticated readers who are interested in the question of how we might reconfigure our knowledge of, and talk with one another about, politics., 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 Etienne 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. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political order that is fully compatible with liberty. Manent boldly confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated the classical and Christian notion of "liberty under law" and in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate obligations from a condition of what Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau call the "state of nature," where human beings are absolutely free, with no obligations to others. In his view, our ever-more-imperial affirmation of human rights needs to be reintegrated into what he calls an "archic" understanding of human and political existence, where law and obligation are inherent in liberty and meaningful human action. Otherwise we are bound to act thoughtlessly and in an increasingly arbitrary or willful manner. Natural Law and Human Rights will engage students and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion, and will captivate sophisticated readers who are interested in the question of how we might reconfigure our knowledge of, and talk with one another about, politics., 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 Étienne 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. He aims to restore the grammar of moral and political action, and thus the possibility of an authentically political order that is fully compatible with liberty. Manent boldly confronts the prejudices and dogmas of those who have repudiated the classical and Christian notion of "liberty under law" and in the process shows how groundless many contemporary appeals to human rights turn out to be. Manent denies that we can generate obligations from a condition of what Locke, Hobbes, and Rousseau call the "state of nature," where human beings are absolutely free, with no obligations to others. In his view, our ever-more-imperial affirmation of human rights needs to be reintegrated into what he calls an "archic" understanding of human and political existence, where law and obligation are inherent in liberty and meaningful human action. Otherwise we are bound to act thoughtlessly and in an increasingly arbitrary or willful manner. Natural Law and Human Rights will engage students and scholars of politics, philosophy, and religion, and will captivate sophisticated readers who are interested in the question of how we might reconfigure our knowledge of, and talk with one another about, politics.
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K456.H79.M3613 2020
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