Natural Law, Laws of Nature, and Natural Rights. Continuity and Discontinuiy in the History of Ideas

From: The Catholic Historical Review | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: Tierney, Brian | Copyright information

Natural Law, Laws of Nature, and Natural Rights. Continuity and Discontinuiy in the History of Ideas. By Francis Oakley. (New York: Continuum Press. 2005. Pp. 143. $29.95.)

This excellent book provides a sophisticated but accessible introduction to some fundamental problems in the history of natural law thinking, and the writing throughout is elegant, lucid, and persuasive. Oakley's central argument is that a major shift occurred in the fourteenth century and that it influenced both th...

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