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C. S. Lewis on Politics and the Natural Law
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Artikel-Nr:
9781107108240
Veröffentl:
2016
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Erscheinungsdatum:
05.12.2016
Seiten:
174
Autor:
Justin Buckley Dyer
Gewicht:
414 g
Format:
235x157x14 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Justin Buckley Dyer is Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Kinder Institute on Constitutional Democracy at the University of Missouri, Columbia. He is the author of Natural Law and the Antislavery Constitutional Tradition (Cambridge, 2012) and Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning (Cambridge, 2013), and the editor of American Soul: The Contested Legacy of the Declaration of Independence (2012). He earned a PhD in government at the University of Texas, Austin and a BA and MPA at the University of Oklahoma.
This book shows how Lewis was interested in the truths and falsehoods about human nature and how these conceptions manifest themselves in the public square.
1. The apolitical and political C. S. Lewis; 2. Creation, fall and human nature; 3. Divine commands and the natural law; 4. The early modern turn and the abolition of man; 5. Lewis' Lockean liberalism; 6. Screwtape is in the details; 7. Conclusion: politics in the shadowlands; 8. Selected bibliography.