Nature, law, and natural law

In Roger Crisp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Ethics. Oxford University Press. pp. 206 (2013)
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This chapter analyses various theories of natural law. The discussions cover meta-ethical objections to natural law theory; the views of Mills and Hobbes; a holistic and teleological conception of nature; nature and the precepts of natural law; nature and human good; natural sociality and morality; a defence of naturalism; a voluntarist conception of natural law; an objection to and defence of voluntarism; and natural morality without natural law.

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